The Subtle Knife


by Philip Pullman (Author)

Book Cover for The Subtle Knife

   Book 2   
Pages: 341
Lyra and her new-found friend, Will, tumble separately into the strange tropical otherworld of CittĂ gazze, "the city of magpies," where adults are curiously absent and children run wild.

Here their lives become inextricably entwined when Lyra's alethiometer gives her a simple command: find Will's father. Their search is plagued with obstacles - some familiar and some horribly new and unfathomable - but it eventually brings them closer to Will's father and to the Subtle Knife, a deadly, magical, ancient tool that cuts windows between worlds. Through it all, Will and Lyra find themselves hurtling toward the centre of a fierce battle against a force so awesome that leagues of mortals, witches, beasts, and spirits from every world are uniting in fear and anger against it.

His Dark Materials Series—Summary and Book Order

Series: His Dark Materials
Reading level: 12+
Books in series: 5
Read in order? Yes
Next release: Finished
Tags: fantasy  adventure  magic  religion 

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Books in series order

1.   Northern Lights  (1995)
2.   The Subtle Knife  (1997)
3.   The Amber Spyglass  (2000)
+   Lyra's Oxford  (2003)
+   Once Upon A Time in the North  (2008)