About David Fickling Books DFB has been publishing worldwide bestselling books since 1999, with titles including modern classics The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Varjak Paw and Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust. DFB became fully independent in 2014 and works closely alongside their sister company, which publishes the ground-breaking weekly children's comic The Phoenix. DFB’s comic books, published with The Phoenix, are industry leaders in illustrated fiction, with Jamie Smart's Bunny vs Monkey series regularly hitting the children's bestseller charts on publication. Together, DFB and The Phoenix form the David Fickling Story House, and over the last few years have published Philip Pullman, SF Said, Candy Gourlay, Jamie Smart, Lisa Williamson, Philip Reeve, Sarah McIntyre, Lissa Evans, Melinda Salisbury, Chris Wormell and many other incredibly talented writers and illustrators.