Both worlds share a common enemy, the Church, which is the source of all evil and is intent on suppressing or destroying all that is good and noble. In the first two instalments, Northern Lights and The Subtle Knife (both $15.95), readers are introduced to the two main characters, Lyra and Will - children from parallel worlds. It is a dark, astonishingly inventive piece of Celtic fiction, comparable to the classics in the genre: Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising quintet, Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea saga and the C.S. Fans of author Philip Pullman's heretical trilogy His Dark Materials (Scholastic), would agree - it is better than Harry Potter. truly the stuff of nightmares," says the Catholic Herald. By NICK SMITH Far more worthy of the bonfire than Harry Potter, a million times more sinister.
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