'Reading this novel is like standing in a room in which suddenly all of the windows have blown open at once.' – Slate 'It's a stunning achievement, the universe Pullman has created and continues to build on.' – The New York Times “People will love the first volume of Philip Pullman’s new trilogy with the same helpless vehemence that stole over them when The Golden Compass came out.” - Slate “Too few things in our world are worth a seventeen-year wait: The Book of Dust is one of them.” - The Washington Post Lyra is at the center of a storm, and Malcolm will brave any peril, and make shocking sacrifices, to bring her safely through it. All are asking about the same thing: a girl–just a baby–named Lyra. When she asks Malcolm to keep his eyes open, he begins to notice suspicious characters everywhere: the explorer Lord Asriel, clearly on the run enforcement agents from the Magisterium a gyptian named Coram with warnings just for Malcolm and a beautiful woman with an evil monkey for a daemon. Inside the object is a cryptic message about something called Dust and it’s not long before Malcolm is approached by the spy for whom this message was actually intended. But during a winter of unceasing rain, Malcolm finds a mysterious object–and finds himself in grave danger. Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, are used to overhearing news and the occasional scandal at the inn run by his family. Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of His Dark Materials–now an HBO original series starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, and Lin-Manuel Miranda–to expand on the story of Lyra, “one of fantasy’s most indelible heroines” ( The New York Times Magazine).ĭon’t miss Volume II of The Book of Dust: The Secret Commonwealth!

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