On BeautyHoward Belsey, a Rembrandt scholar who doesn't like Rembrandt, is an Englishman abroad and a long suffering Professor at Wellington College. He has been married for thirty years to Kiki, an American woman who no longer resembles the sexy activist she once was. Their three children passionately pursue their own paths, and faced with the oppressive enthusiasms of his children, Howard feels that the first two acts of his life are over and he has no clear

Brimming with gluttony

He is presumed murdered and the finger of suspicion points firmly at the new English arrivals

It can't just stop happening

or the breaking

'It is nothing less than a landmark in modern crime fiction' The Times

author of the Uglies series and Leviathan

In Lyra's Oxford the reader shares the huge excitement of discovering a small bundle of material that has somehow slipped between Lyra's universe and our own

where he discovers not only that he has an inborn talent for the nature-influenced magic of the Fourth Way

like chances missed or pages unturned

with one vertiginious plunge after another

is convinced that he is in Hell

is still desperate to spread her wings and see more of the world