Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    The Shadow In the North
    Unavailable
    The Shadow In the North
    Unavailable
    The Shadow In the North
    Audiobook9 hours

    The Shadow In the North

    Written by Philip Pullman

    Narrated by Anton Lesser

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    The year is 1878, and Sally Lockhart has started her own financial consulting business. When a client loses a fortune in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally is determined to find out why. But as she comes closer to learning the identity of the firm's elusive owner, she discovers that her questions are far from simple --and that the answers could cost her her life.

    "Fraud, fire, and bloody murder pursue Sally Lockhart in a fine sequel to The Ruby in the Smoke. Sally, now 22, is in business as a financial consultant. When she and her friends challenge corrupt financial interests, they find themselves in a web of intrigue that stretches from fetid slums of the poor to the corporate offices of the richest man in Europe. Sally's detective work reveals the connections between corrupt power and broken lives. The action is fast, scenes are tight and dramatic, the language is vivid, and the wealth of minor characters are sharply individualized. An immensely entertaining thriller."--(starred) Booklist. Reading level: 6.7.  


    From the Paperback edition.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateNov 23, 2004
    ISBN9781400089727
    Unavailable
    The Shadow In the North
    Author

    Philip Pullman

    Philip Pullman (b. 1946) is one of the world’s most acclaimed children’s authors, his bold, brilliant books having set new parameters for what children’s writing can say and do. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, installments of which have won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Book of the Year Award. In 2003, the trilogy came third in the BBC’s Big Read competition to find the nation’s favorite book, and in 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, an international prize for children’s literature. In 2007, Northern Lights became a major Hollywood film, The Golden Compass, starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig. Pullman has published nearly twenty books, and when he’s not writing he likes to play the piano (badly), draw, and make things out of wood.

    More audiobooks from Philip Pullman

    Related to The Shadow In the North

    Related audiobooks

    YA Mysteries & Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Book Club

      May 25, 2022

      What do you really know about the people you see, but never speak to? We can all make judgements – as does Iona Iverson, who gets the 8.05am train to London Waterloo every day. She even has names for her fellow commuters. Little does she know that sh

      2 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Sep 14, 2022

      Book Club
      5 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Hamya, Wolitzer, and More

      Aug 31, 2021

      Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Jo Hamya, Hilma Wolitzer, and more—that are publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Hamya, Wolitzer, and More appeared first on The Millions.

      3 min read

    • Article

      From Birds To Bucks To Baddies

      Jun 9, 2023

      Ryan is a renowned ornithologist and emeritus professor at the University of Cape Town's FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology. For this second edition of his guide, he has added nine new species, updated the text and maps generally, and exten

      2 min read

    • Article

      Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Thorpe, Gaige, Sligar, and More

      Apr 28, 2020

      Our own Thomas Beckwith previews new titles from the likes of Rufi Thorpe, Amity Gaige, Sarah Sligar, Ishmael Beah, and Julio Cortázar—that are publishing this week. The post Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Thorpe, Gaige, Sligar, and More appeared

      6 min read

    • Article

      How To Focus On The War And The Queen

      Nov 4, 2022

      Stolen Focus by Johann Hari (Bloomsbury R370) It's a hard question to think about if you're working flat out to year-end, but crucial to today's world, writes Hari: how can you help yourself concentrate better to get more done? "Do less" is Hari's ap

      2 min read

    • Article

      Mallett's Take On The Springboks

      Aug 18, 2023

      Insights Into The Rugby World Cup by Nick Mallett with Lloyd Burnard (Jonathan Ball, R20) The countdown to this year's Rugby World Cup is getting closer and closer, and for those who want to bone up on what to expect, hope for and (perhaps) fear, Mal

      2 min read

    • Article

      Books

      Feb 19, 2021

      At a local newspaper in South East London in 1957, journalist Jean Swinney receives a curious letter written to the editor. Gretchen Tilbury – abeautiful, well-to-do woman – claims her 10-year-old daughter is the product of a virgin birth. Gretchen h

      5 min read

    • Article

      Starter Villain

      Sep 6, 2023

      Starter Villain
      2 min read

    • Article

      Books Of The Month

      Jan 21, 2022

      by Nikki May “Wahala” means, loosely, trouble, and there’s plenty of it in this entertaining debut. Friends since university, where they bonded over their mixed Nigerian and British heritage, Ronke, Boo and Simi live in London, where they pivot betwe

      2 min read

    • Article

      Life Hacks From History

      Nov 23, 2023

      Life Hacks From History
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Marvellous Light

      Dec 1, 2021

      ▶ RELEASED 9 DECEMBER 384 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ▶ Author Freya Marske ▶ Publisher Tor Historical romances are eternally popular, and you only have to look at a certain Scottish series to see how combining them with fantasy can make them mo

      1 min read

    • Article

      Spoilt For Choice

      Oct 14, 2022

      Murder, vengeance, greed and the supernatural arrive in Portland, Maine, hometown of private investigator Charlie Parker. This, the 20th book in the series, is actually two short novels in one. The Sisters Strange, the first and longest, begins with

      3 min read

    • Article

      What To Read

      Nov 5, 2021

      Author Margot Hart is employed as a writer in residence at Castle Deverill, which has been turned into a luxury hotel, and sets out to write a biography about the famous Irish family who used to own it. But as she slowly forms a bond with the reclusi

      2 min read

    • Article

      Best Books

      Jun 7, 2022

      Best Books
      1 min read

    • Article

      Let’s Go… 1960s Auckland

      Jul 3, 2019

      To avoid disturbing blokes and the patriarchy in general, lesbians in Auckland in the late 1950s and 60s needed to keep things on the down-low — much like present-day London, where teenage boys recently beat up two women on a bus for refusing to kiss

      3 min read

    • Article

      Book Club

      Jul 16, 2020

      Book Club
      4 min read

    Reviews for The Shadow In the North

    3.5/5

    611 ratings24 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      Excellent historical mystery series.
    • 4/5
      Parts of this book make me sad, but I think it was even better than the first book. Sally's as awesome as ever.
    • 1/5
      The sucker punch concealed within this book spoiled it entirely for me.
    • 4/5
      A mystery set in Victorian England, with a very modern heroine in the form of Sally, a financial consultant and detective. As well as the mystery, Pullman explores the confines of being female over a hundred years ago, and the compromises to integrity workers must make to support themselves. It also explores love in its many forms, and how life can be complex, shocking and arbitrary.
    • 4/5
      The Shadow in the NorthA good follow up to The Ruby in the Smoke, with some shocking deaths and other scenes, though I didn't find this quite as gripping as its forerunner. Still good stuff, though. 4/5
    • 4/5
      Again, jolly victorian mystery fun. The extra half star is for the superb ending - the scene where grief struck Sally confronts the evil yet visionary Bellman is awesome.
    • 5/5
      Sally's back, along with her bohemian friends from Ruby in the Smoke. She vows to help a client who has been cheated out of her money, but in order to find the truth, Sally has come dangerously close to a man who will stop at nothing to make sure his fortune and status are kept safe, even if it means murder.
    • 5/5
      Another great Sally Lockheart mystery by Philip Pullman. I think these are so much better than the Dark Materials Trilogy!!! Sally is her independent, fierce self in this mystery which takes place in Victorian England, this time involving financial fraud, psychic entertainers, and weapons of mass destruction. I listened to the audio book, which was read by the fabulous Anton Lesser, and totally loved it.
    • 2/5
      I read The Ruby in the Smoke a while ago. I guess I got distracted before I read the rest of the trilogy...Great continuation of the Sally Lockhart story -- wow, great ending!
    • 4/5
      This book does not follow on directly from the events in the previous in the series and leaves some characters behind, with questions about their fate unanswered. The story is at times scary, disturbing and very moving. As for the previous book Pullman blends in historical refernces, although for a reader the literary references are more fun - Jim receives a letter about vampires from Bram Stoker and other characters are reading Jane Austen and Anthony Trollope. But it is Sally Lockhart, a stunningly original and independent character who is the heart and soul of this novel as her integrity of spirit drives the narrative.
    • 4/5
      Actually quite heart breaking. I read this in middle school and cried for days.
    • 4/5
      (SPOILERS)Well, this jumped disconcertingly several years after the conclusion of Ruby in the Smoke. No mention is made of Adelaide, so I guess she was never found again. Phillip's sister and Trembler are also absent.The new grown up characters of Sally, Jim, and Phillip are believable and interesting. I found Sally much improved by her education and independence. The central mysteries were engaging, and I really enjoyed the book until the fire. I must have cared more for the main characters than I thought, because I felt sick and shaky reading the rest of the book. What a waste indeed.
    • 4/5
      first line: "One sunny morning in the Spring of 1878, the steamship Ingrid Linde, the pride of the Anglo-Baltic shipping line, vanished in the Baltic Sea."More dark intrigues and more great characters, this book is the second in the Sally Lockhart series, set six years after The Ruby in the Smoke. The heroine is a strong, intelligent character (rather anachronistically independent given the Victorian setting), with charming, lovable allies.
    • 5/5
      It's six years after The Ruby In the Smoke. I almost thought I had missed a book in between since there is so much going on in the characters' lives that had changed, but Pullman isn't interested in the telling of an everyday story. This one is not as tightly woven as the first, but ends up being a more powerful book.The first half deals with a mystery that is torn into three parts, Sally and her friends each have a part they are working on and realize that they need to come together to work it all the way through. At first the connection seems to be the current popular mania of spiritualism, but as the novel moves along, it is revealed to be something much more sinister (and real) than that.The second half of the novel is far more serious. Sally's discoveries lead her to question the society she lives in and the human condition at large. It's kind of a pessimistic view of things, and the sacrifices that Sally goes through to bring about some sort of justice in the book is a pretty high price.
    • 3/5
      Pretty good, I think I enjoyed it although I never felt very close to the characters. Maybe a bit forced, but maybe I just wasn't in the mood for it.
    • 3/5
      Okay, while I'm still enjoying the mysteries in the story, I am a bit disillusioned with the killing off of some of the major characters. Bah!
    • 4/5
      This is the 2nd of Pullman's books about Sally Lockhart, Financial Analyst, feisty Victorian spitfire, and proto-feminist.
      A client arrives at Sally's door. She's followed Sally's financial advice, but the company has gone bust, causing her to lose all her money. She's not angry at Sally - but she suspects fraud, and asks Sally to investigate.
      Meanwhile, Sally's sort-of boyfriend, a photographer, has been asked to investigate a spiritualist who may have been divulging classified business secrets in her trances...
      And Sally's best friend Jim finds himself rescuing a stage magician, who also claims to have psychic powers, from a couple of thugs at a performance...
      Strangely, all these events seem to be interconnected... and seem to be pitting Sally, who's not one to back down from a challenge, against one of the wealthiest, most powerful - and most dangerous - men in Europe.
      Fun mystery for everyone. A can't-miss for socialists.
    • 5/5
      The Smoke in the North Sally Lockhart mystery, Book #2By Philip Pullman; narrated by Anton LesserSally is six years older than she was in The Ruby in the Smoke and now a twenty-two year old financial consultant in London. One of her clients, however, as been wiped out of her life's savings by taking Sally's advice in investing in a shipping interest, and Sally is determined to find out what happened to make a previously going concern fold. Her inquiries soon lead to a much larger scenario involving murder, romantic intrigue, and corporate conspiracies. Set against a backdrop of spiritualism and "the woman question" (The Married Women's Property Act, the marriage market, women in the work force...,) The Shadow in the North is rather brutal emotionally and doesn't shy away from the vicissitudes of the Victorian Age. Pullman doesn't pull any punches and shows the reader/listener a time and place of ruthless ambitions, greed, and violence visited upon those who have little or no defense against such social and moral inequities. Philip Pullman builds a world with seeming veracity and Anton Lesser brings it to life with superb characterizations and a classic British accent.n.b. - Extreme violence directed against men, women, and a dog; Limited violence against a child.
    • 3/5
      A significant improvement over the faux-feminist charade that was The Ruby in the Smoke. Sally actually DOES stuff and takes stances in this installment of the Sally Lockhart series, and while I may not always agree with the positions she argues, especially when it comes to romance, I have to respect her for standing up for what she believes in. Besides for that, however, I still did not achieve a sort of emotional connection with any of the characters to be much shaken over the shocking event that takes place. I also have a few qualms about how it's Sally's "feminine wiles" that eventually enable her to end her case. Isn't that a bit sending the wrong message, Pullman?The issues I have with the characters aside, I was much more impressed and interested in the mystery in this novel. The layers of psychopathic deceit and manipulation involved were quite chilling! I will probably read the remaining Sally Lockhart-related books since I am this far along now. They are fair enough reads, but nothing in particular about them is going to stick with me, and I probably won't be going around singing the praises of these books to anyone anytime soon.
    • 4/5
      The middle book in the trilogy. This is another excellent tale by Philip Pullman, a bit more steampunk than the previous one in the series. However, he does trot out yet another of his megalomaniacal villains, easily defeated by the cluelessness their megalomania induces.The spiritualism, music halls, and so forth lend an enjoyable atmosphere. Philip Pullman does try to make statements about social issues, and sometimes these are a bit heavy handed.The fact that the ending of the previous book was a lot like real life, with no happily ever after, but enough good luck and planning to continue to pursue the various goals of the various characters gave this book the more interest.Arthur Conan Doyle created a problem for himself when he married Mary Morstan and Watson off at the end of "The Sign of Four", but Philip Pullman avoided that mistake.
    • 3/5
      It's more of a 2.5 stars, couldn't connect with the book. Very disappointing after The Golden Compass
    • 4/5
      Full of drama and intrigue, if not quite as immediately compelling as the first book -- probably because the story begins as a complicated business investigation rather than with the deeply personal mystery of Sally's past. Still, the stakes are high and the personalities strong, aside from a couple of supporting characters who are so incredibly and annoyingly passive and even whiny at times that I wanted to slap them. I guess that's a tribute to Pullman's ability to create such a strong, brave and smart female protagonist that anything at the other end of the spectrum seems off-putting.
    • 4/5
      22-year-old Sally Lockhart has established herself as a financial consultant. When one of her clients loses her life's savings on a failed shipping company Sally advised her to invest in, Sally is determined to recover her client's money from the person she suspects of having deliberately destroyed the firm. Jim Taylor, moonlighting backstage at a music hall, finds himself helping a conjurer escape from several thugs who are threatening his life. Photographer/sleuth Fred Garland is investigating a medium at the request of a client who fears losing his job after hearing the medium's revelations at a séance. The three friends soon realize that their cases are somehow related, and they work together to foil an evil plot.Once I started reading this book, it was difficult to put down. Although it is called a mystery, I would probably classify it as an adventure novel because of the amount of action in the book and the level of danger confronting the protagonists.
    • 4/5
      I found The Shadow in the North, pleasingly, to be another good read. Again I wanted to read it before viewing a forthcoming television episode but I was also interested to renew my acquaintance with the characters from the previous book.Sally Lockhart is now twenty-two and, unusually for the day, has become a rather successful and independent young woman operating her own financial consulting business. At the same time Sally has continued her partnership in the Garland’s photographic business – now flourishing – which has allowed Fred, along with Jim, to turn their true interest into private detection. When a client of Sally’s suffers the loss of a large sum of money through an unexpected and, perhaps, suspicious collapse of a shipping firm, Sally begins to investigate in the hope of retrieving the money. Simultaneously Fred and Jim become involved in two separate cases, which inevitably become entangled with Sally’s, all involving a mysterious foreign businessman, Axel Bellmann. As the investigations converge a diabolical plot unfolds, with devastating consequences for all.This story is actually quite bleak, with rather severe outcomes afforded to many of the narrative’s inhabitants and to their lives. The main personalities, and their relationships, become more fleshed out as the plot progresses and the harsh realities of the era are realistically engendered. This is a more sobering, reflective tale than the first – maturing and developing, concurrently, with Sally and her compatriots – and offering a rather grim indictment of greed and power in a past society.As in the first book Philip Pullman concocts an entertaining account of a mystery, full of larger-than-life characters and firing a broad-side at the politics, business and attitudes of the era, yet with a somewhat relevance to today. And once more I found myself enthralled in the action, engaged with the individuals, quite concerned with the upshot of all their efforts, and surprised at the resultant endings. And I feel rather compelled to read the next.