The Ruby in the Smoke

philip pullman

In nineteenth-century London, sixteen-year-old Sally, a recent orphan, becomes involved in a deadly search for a mysterious ruby.

Genres mysteryyoung adulthistorical fictionfictionhistoricalfantasyaudiobookadventurecrimevictorian

0 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1,1985

Series

Sally Lockhart

Literary awards

ira children’s and young adult’s book award,

Places

london england,

This edition

Format: 0 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 2002 by Peter Smith Pub Inc
ISBN: 9780844672304
ASIN: 0844672300
Language: English

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Sally Lockhart

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About the author

Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ, a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, The Times named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature.
Northern Lights, the first volume in His Dark Materials, won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book. For the Carnegie's 70th anniversary, it was named in the top ten by a panel tasked with compiling a shortlist for a public vote for an all-time favourite. It won that public vote and was named all-time "Carnegie of Carnegies" in June 2007. It was filmed under the book's US title, The Golden Compass. In 2003, His Dark Materials trilogy ranked third in the BBC's The Big Read, a poll of 200 top novels voted by the British public.