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Best books ... chosen by Tracy Chevalier

Thu, 10 Dec 2009 05:00:00 GMT

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (Scholastic, $25). This trilogy is ostensibly for children, but its alternative worlds and moral probing are so sophisticated it will stimulate readers of all ages.
Source: The Week

Sexy science: shedding light on dark matter

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:10:33 GMT

A ccording to scientists, most of the stuff in the universe consists of unseen particles called dark matter. But no one is sure exactly what it is.
Source: Times Online

Everyone's a critic: readers' views

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 00:59:47 GMT

The Irish Times - Tuesday, December 8, 2009 THE 20 BEST FILMS IF IT’S A list of the most influential (rather than best) books of the decade, I’m afraid Dan Brown certainly has to be in there. The Da Vinci Code spawned a phenomenon.
Source: Irish Times

Philip Pullman's blasphemous Jesus novel 'inspired' by Archbishop of Canterbury

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 18:15:30 GMT

Philip Pullman is planning to publish his controversial book The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ ahead of Easter next year Photo: Andrew Crowley "He wondered why I'd not put Jesus in His Dark Materials," says Pullman.
Source: The Telegraph

Philip Pullman creates 'Northern Lights' charity book

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:04:39 GMT

Two years ago the Harry Potter creator announced she was making just seven leather-bound copies of her book The Tales of Beedle the Bard, six of which she gave to friends.
Source: The Telegraph

Interview: Eva Green, Actor

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 17:21:41 GMT

• Eva Green in the Catherine Palace, St Petersburg, photographed for Mont Blanc. It's close to 5pm when I meet Eva Green, in a particularly quirky room in London's Sanderson Hotel.
Source: The Scotsman

The Greatest Story Ever Retold

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:57:29 GMT

A couple of weeks ago in London, at a fundraiser for a prisoners’ rights organization Reprieve, the British writer Philip Pullman, the author of the His Dark Materials trilogy (better known in the US as The Golden Compass) unveiled an alternative Bible...
Source: True/Slant

First Night: Nation, Olivier, NT

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:11:41 GMT

With a good deal of theatrical fare designed for family consumption at Christmas, you can confidently check your brains in at the cloakroom and sit back expecting a certain end-of-term laxity on the artistic front.
Source: The Independent

Quoted in 'Museum of storytelling planned for Oxford'

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:14:42 GMT

said in Guardian Unlimited:

From where I'm sitting at this moment I've got within a radius of less than two miles Kenneth Grahame, Charles Dodgson [Carroll], Tolkien, Philip Pullman and CS Lewis

Photo from AP Photo

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:30:00 GMT

FILE - This Nov. 27, 2007 file photo shows British writer Philip Pullman arriving for the world premiere of the film "The Golden Compass" at a cinema in London.

Philip Pullman 's "The Butterfly Tattoo" Teaser Trailer

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:41:28 GMT