<p><b>From the best-selling master storyteller, Sir Philip Pullman, dive once again into the world of <i>His Dark Materials</i> and <i>The Book of Dust</i>...<br><br>''<i>D''you - er - have you seen her before</i>?''<br><i>''Yes. I know who she is.''</i><br><i>''But, </i><i>Grinstead, this painting is seventy years old - probably nearer eighty! You''re not being serious - I mean . . . What do you mean?''</i></b><br><br>On a dark winter''s night in 1970, Horley and Grinstead huddle for warmth in the Senior Common Room of a college in Oxford. Conversation turns to the two impressive works of art that Horley has recently added to his collection.<br><br>What the two men don''t know is that these pieces are connected in mysterious and improbable ways; and they are about to be caught in the cross-fire of a story which has travelled time and worlds.</p>