{"product_id":"0af7b240-ab66-11e9-fb5b-ec70dec73689","title":"The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two","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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It is almost ten 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. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a child . . .\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The second volume of Philip Pullman's 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Reviews for La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One:\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e '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\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'No one else writes like Pullman . . . entirely worth the 17-year wait' Metro\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A rich, imaginative, vividly characterised rite-of-passage tale' Sunday Times\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting' The Times\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":30606964883508,"sku":"9780241373347","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0063\/1753\/9380\/products\/penguin-books-active-the-secret-commonwealth-the-book-of-dust-volume-two-13074419449908.jpg?v=1596842251","url":"https:\/\/www.gogokids.co.nz\/products\/0af7b240-ab66-11e9-fb5b-ec70dec73689","provider":"GoGoKids Toy \u0026 Book Shop New Zealand","version":"1.0","type":"link"}