The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two

London: Penguin and David Fickling Books, 2019 9780241373330. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Complete number line. Fine/Fine. Like new. DW is not price-clipped. No annotations or inscriptions or highlighting etc. Number of pages=704. Black cloth-covered boards, red with gilt titles to the spine and gilt star decorations to the boards. Decorative endpapers. The Children of Limitless Ability can do all sorts of amazing things. Terrifying things too. Dax Jones can change his form; can hurtle through the sky at 200km an hour, or swim underwater for minutes on end." Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England, Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford. 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.