The secret commonwealth

Pullman, Philip, 1946- (author.). Wormell, Christopher, (illustrator.).

Summary:

"The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue's youth are long behind her--or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia's College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries, the less she is sure of. Even the events of her own past come into question when she learns of Malcolm Polstead's role in bringing her to Jordan College. Now Lyra and Malcolm will travel far beyond the confines of Oxford, across Europe and into the Levant, searching for a city haunted by daemons, and a desert said to hold the truth of Dust. The dangers they face will challenge everything they thought they knew about the world, and about themselves."-- Publisher's description

Record details

ISBN: 9780553510669
ISBN: 0553510665
ISBN: 9780553510676
ISBN: 0553510673
Physical Description: 633 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2019]
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

General Note:

Sequel to: La Belle Sauvage.

The second of three parts.

This book features characters from the author's previous trilogy, His Dark Materials, and takes place about ten years after those stories--adapted from author's note.

"A Borzoi book."

Formatted Contents Note:

Moonlight and bloodshed -- Their clothes smelled of roses -- Left luggage -- The college silver -- Dr. Strauss's journal -- Mrs. Lonsdale -- Hannah Relf -- Little Clarendon Street -- The alchemist -- The Linnaeus room -- The knot -- The dead moon -- The zeppelin -- The Café Cosmopolitan -- Letters -- Lignum vitae -- The miners -- Malcolm in Geneva -- The professor of certainty -- The furnace man -- Capture and flight -- The assassination of the patriarch -- The Smyrna ferry -- The bazaar -- The Princess Cantacuzino -- The Brotherhood of This Holy Purpose -- The Café Antalya -- The Myriorama -- News from Tashbulak -- Norman and Barry -- Little stick -- Hospitality -- The dead town.