‘The Book of Dust’ and ‘Life of Pi’ craft imaginative leaps onstage. Plus a nippily funny staging for ‘Measure for Measure’
The second volume of The Book of Dust sees heroine Lyra pitted against ever darker foes
An essay collection that distils a lifetime’s worth of thinking about books and writing
The prequel to ‘His Dark Materials’ is more Earth-bound but just as enticing
With the companion trilogy ‘The Book of Dust’ soon to be published, it was time to revisit old friends
Oxford book fair needs to pay writers for event appearances, says president of Society of Authors
A family opera based on Philip Pullman’s novel taxes the audience’s powers of concentration
The novelist sings the praises of life on the land, independent shops and the value of analogy
‘I got a third at Oxford. They’d stopped giving fourths, or I’d have got one of those’
Britain will regret the current wave of library closures but that does not mean its network must stay the same
Six writers and their book-collecting habits
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