The Book of Dust, Volume Three: The Rose Field (SIGNED SPECIAL EDITION)

Pullman, Philip

ISBN 10: 0241458692 / ISBN 13: 9780241458693

Published by David Fickling Books in Association with Penguin Books, Oxford, 2025

Bookplate signed by Philip Pullman on title page. New book, exclusive to independent bookshops. Sticker on front of dust jacket says 'Special Edition: Includes exclusive Chris Wormell illustration'. While it is a new book, there is some unfortunate light shelf wear to the edges of the dust jacket and the top of the rear inner jacket sleeve has been dog-earred. Size: 4to. Seller Inventory # 86233

Synopsis:

The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman’s bestselling The Book of Dust sequence . . .


‘Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?’

‘Defend it,’ Lyra said. ‘Die defending it.’

When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra . . .

In The Rose Field, their quests converge in the most dangerous, breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies and thieves, gryphons and witches, old friends and new, learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer. All around them, the world is aflame – made terrifying by fear, power and greed.

As they move East, towards the red building that will reunite them and give them answers – on Dust, on the special roses, on imagination – so too does the Magisterium, at war against all that Lyra holds dear.

Marking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullman’s remarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua in Northern Lights, The Rose Field is the culmination of the cultural phenomenon of The Book of Dust and His Dark Materials.

'Ablaze with light and life . . . To read Pullman is to experience the world refreshed, aglow, in technicolour' - Independent

About the Author:

Philip Pullman (Author)
Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respected children's authors writing today. Winner of many prestigious awards, including the Carnegie of Carnegies and the Whitbread Award, Pullman’s epic fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials has been acclaimed as a modern classic. It has sold 17.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40 languages. In 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He lives in Oxford.

Christopher Wormell (Illustrator)
Chris Wormell is a self-taught artist, and the winner of the Ragazza Prize at Bologna in 1991. Two Frogs won the Nestlé Bronze Award, Molly and the Night Monster was shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal and One Smart Fish won the Booktrust Early Years Awards Best Picture Book. His books include George and the Dragon and The Big Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbit which was recently adapted into a stage play. Chris lives in North London with his wife and children.

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Book of Dust, Volume Three: The Rose ...
Publisher: David Fickling Books in Association with Penguin Books, Oxford
Publication Date: 2025
Binding: Hard
Illustrator: Wormell, Chris
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New
Signed: Signed on Bookplate
Edition: First Edition.