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BOOKS by Oxford author Philip Pullman are to be sold in an online auction expected to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for children with Aids.

New Moon is a terrible movie, worse in some ways than Twilight, better in others, and no doubt baffling to the many who don't spend their time fantasizing about being swept off their feet by Robert Pattinson's controlling vampire Edward Cullen or Taylor Lautner's petulant werewolf Jacob Black.

From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations.

From Lewis Carroll's Wonderland to JRR Tolkien's Middle-earth, CS Lewis's Narnia and the parallel universes of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials, Oxford has played host to some of the UK's most enduring literary creations.

Aptara, a digital vendor specializing in e-book data conversion, has developed eGen, a new e-book platform for converting large volumes of digital content into the ePub standard e-book format for distribution to multiple e-reader hardware platforms.

Courtesy of Summit Entertainment Chris Weitz was devastated when the blockbuster film, The Golden Compass, was taken away from him.

When the long list for the Booker Prize was published this week, the absences were as striking as the literary lions who were present.

One is a cosy bedtime read about a family of tiny people who live beneath the floor; another takes you into the world of a 14-year-old heroin user; and a third enacts an elaborate fantasy of demons and witch-clans. They are among 10 books today nominated as the most important children's novels of the past 70 years, and encompass gritty themes of ...

While Chris Weitz's adaptation of The Golden Compass wasn't as successful or good as any fan of Philip Pullman's series would have hoped, though it did show that Weitz has a surprisingly good eye for special effects.

'I was the classroom clown' Interview by Jonathan Sale enlarge David Harewood, 42, appears in The Last Enemy, the BBC1 surveillance thriller series starting on Sunday, and in Gunrush on ITV in March.

If you've never read Philip Pullman's wonderful book The Golden Compass , you can be forgiven for thinking it must be a piece of graceless atheist propaganda.

I compiled a list of ten movies, based on young adult books, that I can not sit through.

The term "multiverse" will be familiar to readers of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials and Michael Moorcock's fantasy sagas.

UCI student Yinghsuan Chen reads a passage from Jack London's Call of the WIld at Wednesday's Read Out held in recognition of Banned Books Week, which draws attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Authors, artists and musicians are due to gather at a library in San Francisco to protest against the banning of books in schools and libraries in the US.

His Dark Materials trilogy, by Philip Pullman. The books have been challenged in America.

Told By an Idiot, about to showcase its version of Michel Faber's The Fahrenheit Twins, proves that stage adaptations of novels fare best when they leave the original behind Told By an Idiot, about to showcase their version of Michel Faber's The Fahrenheit Twins, prove that stage adaptations of novels fare best when they leave the original behind ...

This week is Banned Books Week here in the U.S., an event sponsored primarily by the American Library Association to draw attention to recent acts of book banning.

US author Ellen Hopkins, whose young adult fiction tackles controversial topics, writes poem addressing censorship to coincide with Banned Books Week Still from the The Golden Compass, based on Philip Pullman's Northern Lights, one of the year's most challenged authors An author of young adult fiction whose books have provoked bans and complaints ...

Tom Stevenson sees comparison between Philip Pullman's novel The Subtle Knife and the parallel realms of opposing financial thinkers.