- Published: 29 September 2020
- ISBN: 9780241373354
- Imprint: Penguin and David Fickling Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 736
- RRP: $19.99
The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two
From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC series
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- Published: 29 September 2020
- ISBN: 9780241373354
- Imprint: Penguin and David Fickling Books
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 736
- RRP: $19.99
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REVIEWS FOR LA BELLE SAUVAGE: THE BOOK OF DUST VOLUME ONE: Fans of His Dark Materials will find themselves joyfully immersed in a familiar world . . . meanwhile, awaiting first-time readers is all the pleasure of commencing their own journey into this most captivating of universes at the very beginning of Lyra's story
Independent
No one else writes like Pullman . . . entirely worth the 17-year wait
Imogen Russell Williams, Metro
A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale
Nicolette Jones, The Sunday Times
High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting
The Times
[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
Independent
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
The novel gallops forward, full of danger, delight and surprise. Nearly miraculous, it seems, is Pullman's ability to sketch character, place and motive in just a few lines
New Statesman
Engrossing
Financial Times
Pullman has created a fantasy world, made yet more satisfying in this new volume. This is a book for getting older with
Guardian
Lyra is all grown up in a rich, vivid sequel
Telegraph
