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Enid Blyton has been named the United Kingdom’s best-loved writer, beating Harry Potter creator JK Rowling into third place and leaving literary giants such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Charles Dickens trailing. Blyton, creator of the Famous Five books as well as the Secret Seven, Malory Towers and Noddy, topped a poll of 2,000 adults for the 2008 Costa Book Awards. There was an extremely strong showing for fantasy authors, with Roald Dahl, JRR Tolkien and Stephen King all making the ... read more

Fantasy author Philip Pullman is certain that a sequel will be made to the controversial film The Golden Compass. He spoke out after film industry sources cast doubt on a film version of The Subtle Knife being given the go-ahead. The Golden Compass was the sixth most successful film at the UK box office last year, grossing £26m, but it took only £35m in the United States, due to a boycott by some Christians. Mr Pullman said he hoped there would not be too long an interval before work begins ... read more

Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule (unabridged) has stormed to the top of the fantasy charts at Audible.co.uk Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman Northern Lights by Philip Pullman Outcast by Michelle Paver Prince Caspian by CS Lewis Stone of Tears by Terry Goodkind Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett All the top ten are ... read more

When The Golden Compass was adapted into a movie last year, English fantasy author Philip Pullman had high hopes that the other two novels in his trilogy, His Dark Materials, would follow suit. However, Philip Pullman has suggested that accusations from religious groups that The Golden Compass was anti-Catholic may have dented the film’s box office. Warner Brothers had been banking on The Golden Compass emulating the success of the Narnia Chronicles and The Lord of the Rings, but while ... read more

JK Rowling, the author of the hugely successful Harry Potter series has added her name to fellow fantasy author Philip Pullman’s campaign to check publishers’ plans to establish age guidance limits on books. Pullman, author of the His Dark Materials trilogy is at the vanguard of a group of authors and illustrators who are all angry about the guidelines. The new scheme would see children’s books stamped with age limits, in a similar way guidance ratings are given to movies. ... read more

The UK’s biggest audio-book web site has a fantastic array of fantasy books from all the top authors. The top 10 for May 2008 shows that Philip Pullman and Terry Pratchett transfer extremely well to audio-book - Terry Goodkind’s Wizard’s First Rule is the Editor’s Pick. The links below lead to reviews on the titles (written word not audio-book). Click on the Audible.co.uk banner on the right to download these titles today. Northern Lights (Unabridged) - Philip ... read more

Philip Pullman, winner of the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Award for his trilogy entitled His Dark Materials. Northern Lights is set in a parallel world alike to our own. It is the tale of a twelve-year-old called Lyra and her quest to rescue a friend and find her father, aided by her daemon, an armoured bear, and a witch-queen. Northern Lights is written and narrated with vigour and vitality by Philip Pullman and a full cast. Audiobook downloads - Visit audible.co.uk Philip Pullman was born ... read more

Philip Pullman, children’s laureate Michael Rosen, Michael Morpurgo and David Almond, over 80 authors, illustrators, librarians, teachers and booksellers will publish a statement in this Friday’s Bookseller opposing the initiative and disassociating themselves from age guidance. The authors’ statement describes the proposal as "ill-conceived, damaging to the interests of young readers, and highly unlikely, despite the claims made by those publishers promoting the ... read more

Philip Pullman’s fantasy series His Dark Materials included animal daemons, representative of the owner’s souls. Professor Pamela Briggs and Dr Patrick Olivier have developed an idea where devices (called biometric daemons) can carry a person’s details and replace the need for pin numbers and passwords in everyday life – they would also react differently to levels of risk and eventually die if they are apart from their owner for too long a time period. ... read more

Philip Pullman, the best selling author of the fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, will be turning his talents to writing a new comic strip. The new strip, The Adventures of John Blake will appear weekly in a new manga-inspired comic, the DFC. Working together with illustrator John Aggs the strip will be distributed monthly by mail. Pullman was a big reader of boys comics when he was a child “I was brought up on comics like the Eagle, Wizard and Beano, though not so much Dandy, this is ... read more