Philip Pullman's classic trilogy is now available as a stunning, large-format, bind-up edition. Since the first volume was published in 1955, and has now been filmed as "The Golden Compass", the trilogy has been acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, and has won the UK's top awards for children's literature. Today, the fabulous story of Lyra and her daemon is read and loved by adults and children alike. The extraordinary story moves between parallel universes. Beginning in Oxford, it takes Lyra and her animal-daemon Pantalaimon on a dangerous rescue mission to the ice kingdoms of the far north, where she begins to learn about the mysterious particles they call Dust - a substance for which a terrible war between different worlds will be fought...'This trilogy is one of the great imaginative works in the English Language. And it contains one of the best villains in all literature' - Terry Jones. Phillip Pullman has won the CILIP Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, the Children's book of the Year - British Book Awards, the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award.

菲利普•普尔曼（Philip Pullman, 1946- ），英国当代著名作家，毕业于牛津大学，曾任教威斯敏斯特大学。

“黑质三部曲”出版后风靡全球，评论界皆认为这部作品的深度与文学性足堪名列文学史。普尔曼也因此被认为是“继《魔戒》作者托尔金之后最优秀的盎格鲁-撒克逊奇幻小说家”，并赢得诸多重要奖项:

《黄金罗盘》获得1996年卡内基勋章（2007年又被评为该奖设置70年来十佳作品之冠）、英国儿童文学最高奖“卫报小说奖”；

《琥珀望远镜》获得2001年度惠特布里德文学奖（普尔曼也由此成为英国凭借儿童文学作品赢得该重要文学大奖的第一人）；

作家本人获得2005年第三届林格伦儿童文学奖。