- New York Times bestseller, Children's fiction, Young adult fiction, action & adventure, survival stories, Young adult fiction, fantasy, epic
**LYRA SILVERTONGUE** thought her adventuring days were long over. Now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College, she could almost begin to doubt that she'd once traveled to the world of the dead were it not for the painful separation from her daemon, Pantalaimon. But intrigue is swirling around Lyra once more. Pantalaimon witnesses a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry shocking echoes of their past. They learn of a city haunted by daemons, and of a desert rose said to reveal the nature of Dust. Even these small scraps of knowledge are dangerous. Lyra is being watched and followed--and inexorably drawn back into a battle she thought she'd left behind. On the run, she seeks refuge with the gyptians, and finds a surprising new ally in Malcolm Polstead. But hers aren't the kind of troubles you can hide from. And the journey in front of her is one Lyra must navigate alone if she is to emerge whole. This description comes from the publisher. *The Secret Commonwealth* is the second volume of The Book of Dust; this is the sequel series to the His Dark Materials series, the first of which is *The Golden Compass* or *Northern Lights*.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and epic.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Philip Pullman
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 656
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books, Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial, Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9780553510676
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Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL is an English writer from Norwich. He is the best-selling author of several books, most notably his trilogy of fantasy novels, [*His Dark Materials*](/series/OL330755L/His_Dark_Materials), and his fictional biography of Jesus, *The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ*. The first of *His Dark Materials* has been turned into the film The Golden Compass and the first two books from his Sally Lockhart series have been adapted for television. In 2008, The Times named Pullman in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". ([Source][1]) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Pullman
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