Just announced THE BOOK OF DUST, the long-awaited new work from Philip Pullman, set in the world of His Dark Materials, will be published as a work in three parts, with the first volume to arrive in October 2017 The spellbinding sequel to The Golden Compass, the modern fantasy classic that Entertainment Weekly named an All-Time Greatest Novel and Newsweek hailed as a Top 100 Book of All Time, continues the epic adventure, catapulting readers between worlds, and toward a devastating discovery.
Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally.
For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels.
Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of Dark Matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power.
And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies are bound together.
until they are split apart.
A #1 New York Times Bestseller Published in 40 Countries Just as quick-moving and unputdownable as The Golden Compass.
The mysteries deepen and the wonders grow even more extravagant.
--The Washington Post Pullman's imagination soars .
A literary rollercoaster ride you won't want to miss.
--The Boston Globe The story gallops with ferocious momentum .
Devilishly inventive.
--The New York Times Book Review.
