Northern Lights ‘His Dark Materials’ and others in the series

When Lyra's friend Roger disappears, she and her dæmon, Pantalaimon, determine to find him.

The quest leads them to the bleak splendour of the North, where armoured bears rule the ice andwitch-queens fly through the frozen skies - and where a team of scientists is conducting experimentstoo horrible to be spoken about.

Lyra overcomes these strange terrors, only to find something yetmore perilous waiting for her - something with consequences which may even reach beyond theNorthern Lights...