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OverviewThe #1 New York Times Bestseller! Return to the world of His Dark Materials in the second volume of Philip Pullman’s new bestselling masterwork The Book of Dust. The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue’s youth are long behind her—or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia’s College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries, the less she is sure of. Even the events of her own past come into question when she learns of Malcolm Polstead’s role in bringing her to Jordan College. Now Lyra and Malcolm will travel far beyond the confines of Oxford, across Europe and into the Levant, searching for a city haunted by daemons, and a desert said to hold the truth of Dust. The dangers they face will challenge everything they thought they knew about the world, and about themselves. Praise for The Book of Dust “It’s a stunning achievement, this universe Pullman has created and continues to build on.” —The New York Times “Pullman’s writing is simple, unpretentious, beautiful, true. The conclusion to The Book of Dust can’t come soon enough.”—The Washington Post Full Product DetailsAuthor: Philip PullmanPublisher: Random House USA Inc Imprint: Knopf Books for Young Readers Volume: 2 Dimensions: Width: 16.80cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.933kg ISBN: 9780553510676ISBN 10: 0553510673 Pages: 656 Publication Date: 03 October 2019 Recommended Age: From 14 years Audience: Young adult , Teenage / Young adult Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Not yet available This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsReviewsThe Secret Commonwealth is a majestic return to Lyra's next chapter with all the magic, folklore, and fantasy only Philip Pullman can provide. -Hypable A big novel full of big ideas, big characters and big sorrows. . . This book feels like a response to the darkness of our time. --NPR Pullman's best novel so far. A work of extraordinary depth and humanity. --The Observer As always, Pullman's writing is simple, unpretentious, beautiful, true. . . . the conclusion to the Book of Dust can't come soon enough. --The Washington Post The novel gallops forward, full of danger, delight and surprise. Pullman is a staggeringly gifted storyteller. --New Statesman Engrossing. --Financial Times Exhilarating. --Kirkus Reviews Enthralling. --Readings Mr. Pullman's writing is clear, clean and forceful, never striving for effect and all the more effective because of it. He's also a man of ideas, which gives great savor to his work. - The Wall Street Journal Coming back to [Lyra] after all these years is such a profound pleasure that I can do nothing but sit back and watch her charge forward into the night, ready as she always was to remake the world in her own image. --Vox The Secret Commonwealth reasserts Pullman's affection for the wondrous and those pieces of reality which can be seen only by those willing to see. --Newsweek These books, and the intellectual debate they produce, make Lyra's world feel more lived-in than ever before. --Entertainment Weekly Not only is it worthy second installment in The Book of Dust trilogy, it continues to prove this sequence will be every bit as excellent as His Dark Materials. --Seattle Post-Intelligencer Through prodigious planning that is likely to set up the final volume, Pullman connects characters and moments from all the previous books.... Lyra, Pantalaimon, and Malcolm are familiar yet altered by age; it is a pleasure to get to know them again. --Publishers Weekly, starred review Skillfully weaves in deeper themes of change and of love's complexities, ruminations on the nature of evil, evidence of magical truths beneath reality's veneer.... Exhilarating. --Kirkus Reviews Relish the chance to catch up with Lyra and return to her ever-expanding world.... A generation of fans is burning to reunite with Lyra for the first time since His Dark Materials, and this fall's BBC/HBO adaptation of the series will only stoke the fire. --Booklist Skillfully weaves in deeper themes of change and of love's complexities, ruminations on the nature of evil, evidence of magical truths beneath reality's veneer.... Exhilarating. --Kirkus Reviews Relish the chance to catch up with Lyra and return to her ever-expanding world.... A generation of fans is burning to reunite with Lyra for the first time since His Dark Materials, and this fall's BBC/HBO adaptation of the series will only stoke the fire. --Booklist Author InformationPHILIP PULLMAN is one of the most acclaimed writers working today. He is best known for the His Dark Materials trilogy, which has been named one of the top 100 books of all time by Newsweek and one of the all-time greatest novels by Entertainment Weekly. Pullman was knighted for his services to literature in the 2019 New Year Honours. The Book of Dust, Pullman’s eagerly anticipated return to the world of His Dark Materials, will also be a book in three parts. It began with La Belle Sauvage and continues with The Secret Commonwealth. Philip Pullman is the author of many other beloved novels. For younger readers: I Was a Rat!, Count Karlstein, Two Crafty Criminals!, Spring-Heeled Jack, and The Scarecrow and His Servant. For older readers: the Sally Lockhart quartet (The Ruby in the Smoke, The Shadow in the North, The Tiger in the Well, and The Tin Princess), The White Mercedes, and The Broken Bridge. He has written a magnificent collection, Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, and his essays and lectures on writing and storytelling have been gathered in a volume called Dæmon Voices: On Stories and Storytelling. Philip Pullman lives in Oxford, England. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |