The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two: From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC series (The book of dust, 2)

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Pan arrives in Wittenberg to confront novelist Gottfried Brande, who is likewise responsible in his eyes for the change in Lyra, but is largely ignored. Malcolm is 11 years older than Lyra and spent nearly all of La Belle Sauvage caring for her while she was a baby; now, he is a professor and she is a student, and also he was briefly her teacher when she was 15. His books include the much-loved George and the Dragon and also Scruffy Bear and the Six White Mice (winner of the Children's Book Award).

The Secret Commonwealth is a 2019 fantasy novel by Philip Pullman, the second volume of his planned trilogy The Book of Dust.

A ticket inside the man's wallet leads them to a rucksack containing a journal and a notebook of addresses. First, there’s Marcel Delamare, Lyra’s estranged uncle who blames her for the death of her mother, his sister, the diabolical Mrs. Delamare consolidates his power and Malcolm continues his investigations, learning about Delamare’s background, intentions and interests in the rose industry from Bonneville.

From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . As if to illustrate the point, the other half of this book consists of following Malcolm Polstead, our main character in La Belle Sauvage, now a professor and somewhat of a spy and man of action. Pullman has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. Here we get a good deal of ecclesiastical power politics, with the deliciously Machiavellian Marcel Delamere eliminating rivals and concentrating power in his own hands.In my opinion, an excellent read, that takes the books depicting this world into a grittier, more realistic and more grown up direction very successfully, while retaining some of the whimsical fantasy and sheer imagination we have seen before.