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English actress Dakota Blue Richards was only 12 years old when she made her film debut as Lyra Belacqua in the 2007 fantasy ...

His most famous books are the His Dark Materials trilogy (published 1995-2000), all of which feature the delightfully heroic and bolshy Lyra Belacqua and have collectively sold an impressive 17.5 ...

The book will see Lyra going across Europe and into Asia ... who was played in the 2007 film adaptation – called The Golden Compass – by Nicole Kidman. James McAvoy plays Lyra’s father ...

But Lyra's greatest adventure would begin closer to home, the day she heard hushed talk of an extraordinary particle. Microscopic in size, the magical dust--discovered in the vast Arctic expanse ...