Master storyteller Philip Pullman continues the incredible journey of Lyra Silvertongue in the second volume of The Book of Dust
Philip Pullman (Author)
Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England,
Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter
College, Oxford.
His first children's book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982.
To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and
adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials
trilogy. These books have been honoured by several prizes including
the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Prize, and (for
The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the
first time that prize had been given to a children's book. Pullman
has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon
Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. He was knighted in the 2019
New Year's Honours List for Services to Literature.
Christopher Wormell (Illustrator)
Chris Wormell is an award-winning, well-loved illustrator and
storyteller. Most recently, he has illustrated the cover of Philip
Pullman's The Book of Dust, and has lent his woodcut style to
Dinosaurium. Chris has created many award-winning books, including
Molly and the Night Monster (shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway
Medal), Two Frogs (winner of the Nestle Bronze Award), and One
Smart Fish (winner of the Booktrust Early Years Awards Best Picture
Book). His books include the much-loved George and the Dragon and
also Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice (winner of the Children's
Book Award).
[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*
Lyra is all grown up in a rich, vivid sequel
*Telegraph*
Engrossing
*Financial Times*
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*
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*
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*
Pullman has created a fantasy world, made yet more satisfying in
this new volume. This is a book for getting older with
*Guardian*
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*
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