{"product_id":"the-secret-commonwealth-the-book-of-dust-volume-two-book-of-dust-2","title":"The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two (Book of Dust 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIt 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 Oxfords 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 Pullmans 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.  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 \"Pullmans story is still thought-provoking ... This book elegantly weaves in live issues  from Europes refugee crisis to facts in the post-truth era. And Pullmans prose is rewarding as ever\" The Times \"A long  taxing  complex journey  laced with beauty  terror and philosophy\" Metro \"As ever  Pullmans 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 literatures 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\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44987654799413,"sku":"ByrdShop_0241373336","price":143.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780241373330.jpg?v=1770951162","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-secret-commonwealth-the-book-of-dust-volume-two-book-of-dust-2","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}