Once upon a time in the NorthLyra is studying at Oxford University she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting, many years ago, along with much evidence of the adventure that brought them together.

and especially from his own deputy

to wrap bottles

Lancastrian King Henry VI

This is how he learns that his grandfather is the guardian of one of the ways between the non-magical world and the Archipelago

DI Fawley investigates

patients not breathing for themselves and living with a terrifying sense of responsibility

Many people think mathematics is useless

told with warmth and imaginative humour

but they continue to uncover startling new riddles - the hole in the universe being just one

Old Master paintings

soon after

the greatest sporting stage of the ancient Roman world