This is a wonderful new episode from the world of Philip Pullman's bestselling trilogy,His Dark Materials. In Lyra's Oxford the reader shares the huge excitement of discovering a small bundle of material that has somehow slipped between Lyra's universe and our own. The book includes a wonderful new story by Philip Pullman,fully illustrated intricate maps and other ephemera from Lyra's universe. The text is illustrated throughout in beautiful black and white wood-blocks by the highly acclaimed engraver,John Lawrence,together with specially printed three-colour pull out maps of Lyra's Oxford. This publication could have come from a parallel universe. The short story contained within Lyra's Oxford finds Lyra with her daemon Pantalaimon a couple of years after the end of The Amber Spyglass. Sitting on the roofs of Oxford she sees a bird,the daemon of a witch,a storm petrel flying towards her pursued by a huge and angry flock of starlings. Birds play a big part in this story. And gradually a mystery unfolds-
Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKISBN: 9780385606998Number of pages: 64Weight: 155 gDimensions: 177 x 119 x 13 mm
Philip Pullman
The Lord of Dust,creator of daemons and spinner of the finest fairy tales,Philip Pullman is one of the world's greatest and most influential storytellers. He is best-known for the unparalleled achievement that isHis Dark Materialsand the long awaited The Book of Dust. The winner of the Waterstones Book of the Year 2017,the first volume in the series,La Belle Sauvage,is this year continued inThe Secret Commonwealth,published in October 2019.
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