From the author of the phenomenal His Dark Materials comes the next chapter in the story of Lyra Silvertongue . . .Lyra is now studying at St Sophias College Oxford with her daemon Pantalaimon.But for the first time there are serious divisions between the two.Lyra is questioning everything she once held dear. Pan misses the impulsiveness of their youth.When an act of terrible violence breaks the peace of the Oxford night Lyra and Pans relationship reaches a crisis and they are drawn far from home into the dangerous factions of a world they had no idea existed.The Secret Commonwealth is truly a book for our times a powerful adventure and a thoughtprovoking look at what it is to understand yourself and to grow up and make sense of the world around you. This is storytelling at its very best from one of our greatest writers.Exclusive to the paperback edition Chris Wormells new original illustrations bring Lyras world vividly to life.Reviews for The Secret Commonwealth The Book of Dust Volume TwoPullman has created a fantasy world made yet more satisfying in rigour and stylistic elegance. This is a book for getting older with Guardian Book of the WeekThe Secret Commonwealth is ablaze with light and life. The writing is exquisite every sentence sings ... To read Pullman is to experience the world refreshed aglow in Technicolour iPullmans story is still thoughtprovoking ... This book elegantly weaves in live issues from Europes refugee crisis to facts in the posttruth era. And Pullmans prose is rewarding as ever The TimesA long taxing complex journey laced with beauty terror and philosophy MetroAs ever Pullmans story is complex and vast but home to some of the finest storytelling in the 21st century. Revel in whole new worlds and enjoy one of literatures most wonderful heroines before she comes to HBO and the BBC StylistPullman is confronting readers with the horrors of our own world reflected back at us. In The Secret Commonwealthhe creates a fearful symmetry The Herald