Philip Pullman Books in Order

The concluding volume of The Book of Dust finds Lyra travelling along the Silk Roads and into a desolate city, searching for a legendary field of roses and for her missing dæmon Pan. As powers religious and corporate clash, she must fight for imagination itself.

This graphic novel adapts The Subtle Knife, bringing Will’s Oxford, the ghostly city of Cittàgazze and the world‑cutting knife to life in full colour. It condenses the complex plot into clear, cinematic scenes without losing the tension and strangeness.

A small companion volume to His Dark Materials, this book gathers tiny scenes, vignettes and images from Lyra’s universe. Each fragment offers a fleeting glimpse of characters, places or ideas, and together they feel like stepping into the author’s private sketchbook.

On a winter night in an Oxford college, two men discuss a disturbing painting and a curious piece of art that may be linked to the enigmatic Mrs Coulter. Their conversation turns into a ghost story that slips between our world and Lyra’s.

Set between His Dark Materials and The Secret Commonwealth, this brief tale sends teenage Lyra and Pantalaimon back to Trollesund to consult the witch‑consul Dr Lanselius, as they struggle to understand their new ability to separate and what it means for their bond.

Now a university student, Lyra is estranged from her dæmon Pantalaimon and drawn to icy rationalist thinkers. When a murder and a notebook about Dust and roses surface, she and Malcolm Polstead are pulled into a perilous journey across Europe and the Middle East.

The collected edition of The Adventures of John Blake, this graphic novel follows time‑tossed sailor John Blake and shipwrecked Serena as they join the crew of the ghostly Mary Alice and stand against a ruthless tech billionaire with a deadly secret.

Set twelve years before The Golden Compass, this first Book of Dust novel follows Malcolm Polstead, an innkeeper’s son whose canoe La Belle Sauvage becomes the only hope of getting baby Lyra to safety when a catastrophic flood and a ruthless hunter close in.

An essay from the collection Daemon Voices, this slim volume reflects on childhood games, made‑up companions and why imaginative play and storytelling matter. Pullman argues for the value of fantasy without confusing it with literal belief.

Gathering more than thirty talks and essays, Daemon Voices is Pullman’s meditation on stories and how they’re told. He writes about influences from Blake to Milton, the craft of plotting, the role of fantasy, and the duties and freedoms of writers for children.

Continuing the graphic retelling, this volume takes Lyra into the far North among witches, gyptians and armoured bears as she confronts the horrors of Bolvangar and the Church’s experiments, leading up to the shattering climax of the first novel.

The first part of the graphic adaptation of The Golden Compass introduces Lyra, Jordan College and the sinister Gobblers. With dynamic panels and expressive artwork, it follows her from Oxford towards the North, making the story accessible to visual readers.

Designed for classroom use, this book invites readers to step into a Sherlock Holmes mystery set in London’s Limehouse district, following clues, examining evidence and piecing together how Holmes and Watson uncover the culprit behind a particularly puzzling crime.

The U.S. edition of the New Cut Gang adventures, this volume contains two linked novellas in which Benny, Thunderbolt, Bridie and friends clear an innocent man of forging coins and later track down a thief who has made off with a fortune in silver.

A short ebook gathering three Brothers Grimm stories—“The Twelve Huntsmen”, “The Buffalo‑Hide Boots” and “The Golden Key”—retold by Pullman, along with two bonus tales. Each is accompanied by a compact commentary on its history and enduring appeal.

Pullman selects fifty of his favourite Grimm fairy tales and retells them in lucid, unfussy prose, followed by short notes on each story’s background. Wicked stepmothers, brave children and strange bargains all appear, presented for adults and older children to share.

This hardback edition of Pullman’s Grimm retellings offers the same fifty tales—among them Snow White, Hansel and Gretel and lesser‑known gems—alongside his brief commentaries. It’s a substantial, browsable collection for anyone interested in how these stories work.

Collecting Thunderbolt’s Waxwork and The Gas‑Fitters’ Ball, this book follows a gang of Lambeth urchins who solve crimes involving counterfeit coins and stolen silver. Fast, funny and full of Victorian slang, it’s perfect for readers who like scruffy detectives and narrow escapes.

This omnibus volume gathers four of Pullman’s short novels—The Firework‑Maker’s Daughter, I Was a Rat!, Clockwork and The Scarecrow and His Servant—framing them with a brief prologue and epilogue. It’s an easy way to explore his fairy‑tale and fable‑like side in one chunky book.

Struck by lightning, a scarecrow springs to life and promptly hires an orphan boy named Jack as his servant. Together they set out to claim a distant estate called Spring Valley, stumbling into battles, shipwrecks and feuds with the crooked Buffaloni family.

In this provocative retelling of the Gospels, Mary gives birth to twin sons: passionate preacher Jesus and reflective Christ. As Jesus attracts followers, Christ begins shaping his brother’s story into something that will endure, raising questions about faith, institutions and truth.

A prequel to His Dark Materials, this short novel shows how Texan aeronaut Lee Scoresby first met the armoured bear Iorek Byrnison in the rough northern port of Novy Odense, crossing a corrupt politician and a powerful corporation in the process.

Subtitled “Utterly Baffling Detective Stories”, this collection brings together short mysteries by authors from Conan Doyle to Andrew Vachss. Pullman invites readers to tackle each case themselves as famous sleuths sift clues, motives and red herrings.

This stage adaptation, scripted by Nicholas Wright from Pullman’s trilogy, reshapes His Dark Materials into a two‑part play for a large ensemble cast. It condenses Lyra and Will’s journeys through multiple worlds into a theatrical experience designed for live performance.

This illustrated novella revisits Lyra a few years after His Dark Materials, when a wounded bird leads her into a small, sinister mystery in the alleys and colleges of Oxford. It offers a brief, atmospheric glimpse of how her world has changed.

A themed anthology introduced by Pullman, collecting classic poems and prose extracts about living and dying. From Donne and Keats to scenes from Wuthering Heights and The Divine Comedy, it offers readers aged around thirteen and up a thoughtful way into big questions.

Pullman’s version of Mary Shelley’s classic re‑tells the story of Victor Frankenstein and his creature in clear, accessible language for students, keeping the novel’s gothic atmosphere and moral questions while making it easier to study and perform in class.

As war erupts in the heavens, Lyra and Will must journey even into the Land of the Dead to learn the truth about Dust and make a choice that will shape every world. Their quest tests love, loyalty and courage against vast cosmic forces.

When miller’s son Jacques inherits only his father’s cat, he thinks he’s been cheated—until Puss demands boots and a bag and sets out to win his master a title, a fortune and a princess. This lively retelling adds extra twists, monsters and jokes to the classic tale.

One evening a small boy in a page’s uniform turns up on Bob and Joan’s doorstep insisting, “I was a rat.” As they try to find out who he really is, the boy is exploited, feared and hunted, in a witty, moving riff on the Cinderella story and on how society treats outsiders.

Pullman retells the story of Aladdin with crisp, humorous prose, following the poor boy who discovers a magic lamp, outwits a treacherous sorcerer and uses the genie’s power to win a princess and transform his fortunes—with a few unforeseen complications along the way.

Chris’s chance rescue of Jenny at an Oxford college ball sparks an intense romance. Neither realises that Jenny is caught in the fallout from a gangster’s vendetta, and that Chris’s kindly boss has a past that will drag them both into violence and betrayal.

Retelling a traditional British fairy tale, this story follows a girl whose mother gifts her a magical moss‑green coat that can whisk her far away. Using its power and a series of enchanted gowns, she escapes an unwanted suitor and finds her own future.

This anthology, introduced and compiled by Pullman, gathers classic and modern detective tales by writers such as Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and others, inviting young readers to match wits with an array of sleuths across fifteen puzzling cases.

Will Parry, a boy from our Oxford, stumbles into a deserted city in another world and meets Lyra. Together they discover a knife that can cut windows between universes, drawing them into a conflict involving Spectres, angels and ruthless agents of the Magisterium.

On a snowy night in a German inn, apprentice clockmaker Karl and storyteller Fritz both face unfinished work. As Fritz begins telling a tale of a sinister clockwork knight and a mysterious doctor, fiction and reality twist together in a dark, tightly wound fable.

Lyra Belacqua grows up among scholars in an alternate Oxford where every person has a talking animal dæmon. When children start vanishing and her uncle’s research into Dust angers the Church, Lyra travels north into a world of gyptians, witches and armoured bears to uncover a terrifying experiment.

When £10,000 worth of silver is stolen from the Gas‑Fitters’ Hall, the New Cut Gang leap into action. Armed with only a blob of wax and an unusually long match as clues, they infiltrate the grand Gas‑Fitters’ Ball to unmask a very clever thief.

Lila longs to be a firework‑maker like her father, but he insists the craft is no job for a girl. Defying him, she sets off to face the Fire‑Fiend Razvani and bring back the final secret of the art, helped by her friend Chulak and Hamlet the talking white elephant.

Members of the New Cut Gang are horrified when counterfeit coins around Lambeth put Thunderbolt’s inventive father under suspicion. Determined to clear his name, the children track the trail to a sinister waxworks and an unexpectedly slippery villain.

Jim Taylor is hired to tutor Adelaide, a cockney girl turned crown princess of the small kingdom of Razkavia. When political plots and an assassination attempt threaten the royal family, Jim and Adelaide must navigate court intrigue and choose where their loyalties lie.

Seventeen‑year‑old Chris Marshall falls intensely in love with Jenny after rescuing her from trouble at an Oxford party. Neither knows that their romance is tangled up in a long‑running feud between criminals, and the consequences of their choices turn tragically dark.

Sally Lockhart seems settled with her young daughter when a stranger claims to be her husband and launches a legal attack to take everything she has. Hounded by the law and a shadowy enemy known as the Tzaddik, she must disappear and fight back from the margins of society.

Ginny, a mixed‑race teenager and aspiring artist living on the Welsh coast, believes her mother died years ago. When long‑buried family secrets surface, she realises much of her past has been a lie and has to rediscover who she is and where she belongs.

Tired of misery in a grim orphanage, sisters Lily and Rose and their little brother Ned run away, only to fall into the sights of the villainous Mack the Knife. Their unlikely protector is Spring‑Heeled Jack, a caped, spring‑booted hero who leaps across the rooftops of Victorian London.

When teenager Jacob discovers the sinister plans of the National Cool Board, the organisation that secretly decides what’s fashionable, he decides to beat them at their own game. This sharp, funny thriller skewers trends, advertising and the hunger to belong.

Now an independent financial consultant, Sally takes on the case of a client ruined by a seemingly solid company. Her search for answers entangles her with a ruthless industrialist, spiritualist frauds and a dangerous new weapon, forcing her to risk everything she cares about.

Sixteen‑year‑old Sally Lockhart, newly orphaned in Victorian London, receives a cryptic warning that leads her into opium dens, shipping offices and the hunt for a legendary jewel. As she investigates her father’s death, she uncovers a conspiracy that could cost her life.

In a Swiss mountain village in 1816, the wicked Count Karlstein has promised the Demon Huntsman a human sacrifice. When he decides his orphaned nieces will do nicely, maidservant Hildi and a cast of allies race to outwit both the Count and the terrifying Zamiel.

A short, accessible introduction for young readers to several early civilizations, explaining how people lived, worked, worshipped and organised their societies, and highlighting the lasting ideas and achievements those cultures left behind.

This practical guide shows teachers and parents how to help children get the most from the Oxford Junior Dictionary, with ideas for activities, tips on introducing reference skills and suggestions for building confidence with words.

An early, little‑seen adult fantasy, Galatea weaves together troubled relationships, questions of desire and hints of the supernatural. It offers a glimpse of Pullman experimenting with themes and moods he would later explore more confidently in his children’s fiction.

Pullman’s first published novel follows Matthew Cortez in a small English community where violence and suspicion simmer. As he investigates a death, he is drawn into a ruined temple and an unsettling spiritual crisis that blends mystery with mysticism.