It is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book
of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin
her life-changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers
left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park
bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the
ground-breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in
The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no
longer a child . . . The second volume of Philip Pullman's The Book
of Dust sees Lyra, now twenty years old, and her daemon
Pantalaimon, forced to navigate their relationship in a way they
could never have imagined, and drawn into the complex and dangerous
factions of a world that they had no idea existed. Pulled along on
his own journey too is Malcolm; once a boy with a boat and a
mission to save a baby from the flood, now a man with a strong
sense of duty and a desire to do what is right. Theirs is a world
at once familiar and extraordinary, and they must travel far beyond
the edges of Oxford, across Europe and into Asia, in search for
what is lost - a city haunted by daemons, a secret at the heart of
a desert, and the mystery of the elusive Dust. The Secret
Commonwealth is truly a book for our times; a powerful adventure
and a thought-provoking look at what it is to understand yourself,
to grow up and make sense of the world around you. This is
storytelling at its very best from one of our greatest writers.
*The first book in The Book of Dust trilogy, La Belle Sauvage, is
coming to the stage in the summer of this year. Performed at The
Bridge Theatre from July 2020, it will be a theatrical spectacle
not to be missed* _____ Reviews for The Secret Commonwealth: The
Book of Dust Volume Two: "[Pullman] has created a fantasy world,
made yet more satisfying in rigour and stylistic elegance. This is
a book for getting older with" Guardian, Book of the Week "The
Secret Commonwealth is ablaze with light and life. The writing is
exquisite; every sentence sings ... To read Pullman is to
experience the world refreshed, aglow, in Technicolour" i
"Pullman's story is still thought-provoking ... This book elegantly
weaves in live issues, from Europe's refugee crisis to facts in the
post-truth era. And Pullman's prose is rewarding as ever" The Times
"A long, taxing, complex journey, laced with beauty, terror and
philosophy" Metro "As ever, Pullman's story is complex and vast but
home to some of the finest storytelling in the 21st century. Revel
in whole new worlds and enjoy one of literature's most wonderful
heroines before she comes to HBO and the BBC" Stylist "Pullman is
confronting readers with the horrors of our own world reflected
back at us. In The Secret Commonwealth he creates a fearful
symmetry" The Herald
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