The Subtle Knife (His Dark Materials Volume 2)

Audie Award for Children's Titles Ages 8-12 (2001), North East Teenage Book Award Nominee (1999). The second instalment in Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, join Lyra as her terrifying journey continues.

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She had asked: What is he? A friend or an enemy?

The alethiometer answered: He is a murderer.

When she saw the answer, she relaxed at once.

Lyra finds herself in a shimmering, haunted otherworld – Cittàgazze, where soul-eating Spectres stalk the streets and wingbeats of distant angels sound against the sky.

But she is not without allies: twelve-year-old Will Parry, fleeing for his life after taking another's, has also stumbled into this strange new realm.

On a perilous journey from world to world, Lyra and Will uncover a deadly secret: an object of extraordinary and devastating power.

And with every step, they move closer to an even greater threat – and the shattering truth of their own destiny.