The Secret Commonwealth : The Book of Dust Volume Two - SIGNED copy

Pullman, Philip

ISBN 10: 0241373336 / ISBN 13: 9780241373330

Published by Penguin / David Fickling Books, UK, 2019

About this Item

A UK first edition, first impression, with number line that includes the number 1 - SIGNED by Philip Pullman to the title page. THE WRAPPER : The wrapper on this copy is bright, clean, unfaded and complete. It is unclipped. Looks very sharp. THE BOOK : The book is tight and square. The boards are clean, the corners sharp. The pages and the closed page edges are clean and bright. No inscriptions. The binding is tight. No cracked hinges. Signed by the author to the title page. A bright copy. PayPal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Secret Commonwealth : The Book of Dust Volume Two - SIGNED copy
• Publisher: Penguin / David Fickling Books, UK
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241373336
• ISBN 13: 9780241373330
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Dimensions: 2.24W x 6.38H x 9.45D inches 2.24 inches width by 6.38 inches height by 9.45 inches depth
• Weight: 1.1 kilograms
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

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.
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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.co.uk

"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