Sophia’s College), Malcolm (now an academic), Pantalaimon and the Magisterium. The book is seen from several different viewpoints: Lyra (student at St. The book also features chapter illustrations for each chapter.

Pullman had already written the book before the auction took place, so he went back and added Nur Hada el-Wahabi as a character who will make an appearance in this book but will play a bigger role in the third book. įollowing an auction to raise money for the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, Pullman confirmed that he would name a character in The Secret Commonwealth after Nur Huda El-Wahab, a victim of the fire. She also escapes Oxford for the third time by boat, the Maid of Portugal, accompanied by the old gyptian Giorgio Brabandt into the safety of the Fens.

In search of a town haunted by dæmons and the mystery behind Dust, Lyra faces adult concerns and new complexities in her relationship with Pantalaimon. Lyra investigates a murder case with Malcolm Polstead. It features Lyra Silvertongue as a twenty-year-old undergraduate, travelling to Central Asia via the Levant. It was set twenty years after the events of La Belle Sauvage, and roughly ten years after the events of the His Dark Materials trilogy. The Secret Commonwealth is the second novel in The Book of Dust trilogy and was released on 3 October, 2019. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. It is seven 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. 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. The Book of Dust Volume Three (in-universe chronology)

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