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Lyra and Will, the ordinary children who were left in such extraordinary danger at the end of Book Two, find themselves in the final part of the story facing even greater perils. But there are old friends who come to their aid, not least Iorek Byrnison, the armoured bear, and the scientist Dr Mary Malone. There are new allies: the Gallivespians, hand- high dragonfly riders with poison spurs, and the mulefa, strange wheeled creatures with the power to see Dust. And there are new dangers, including a journey to the worst world of all- a journey that exerts a terrible cost on both children.

But they will not be children for much longer. And as they come to the end of their childhood, not only are they vunerable to the Spectres, those shimmering destroyers of adults' daemons, but they have to face, without knowing it, the challenge posed by the fate that has been approaching Lyra all her life.

And the survival of everything finally comes to depend on one simple action: one simple response to one simple story.

Like all the greatest stories, this one is deep and has far to go. At its simplest it is a story of courage and humanity about a boy and a girl with a destiny to fulfil. At its deepest t whirls the reader into a universe of marvels and dazzling thought, and you know you are treading with the author in territory previously unvisited by rhyme or prose.