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Philip Pullman's Northern Lights has the winning 'tingle factor'
Northern Lights by Philip Pullman has won the Carnegie Medal
Philip Pullman has won the Carnegie Medal for children's literature with Northern Lights, the first book in his proposed trilogy, His Dark Materials, a reworking of Milton's Paradise Lost. The Carnegie judges are all librarians and they look for plot, characters, dialogue – and the "tingle factor". Plus, A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel; Cynthia Ozick's latest collection of essays, Portrait of the Artist as a Bad Character; and Jenny Diski talks about her new novel, The Dream Mistress.
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