The Rose Field

Exclusive, strictly limited deluxe edition presented in a slipcase with foiled casing, original endpapers, and beautiful details.

"Lyra- what will you do when you find this place in the desert, the opening to the world of the roses?"

"Defend it", Lyra said. "Die defending it."

When readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her - part of himsel - in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of heræmon. And Malcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra.

In The Rose Field, their quests converge in the most dangerous, breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies and thieves, gryphons and witches, old friends and new, learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the alethiometer. All around them, the world is aflame - made terrifying by fear, power and greed.

As they move East, towards the red building that will reunite them and give them answer - on Dust, on the special roses, on imaginatio - so too does the Magisterium, at war against all that Lyra holds dear.

Marking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullm' s remarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua in Northern Lights, The Rose Field is the culmination of the cultural phenomenon of The Book of Dust and His Dark Materials.

About the Author

Philip Pullman was born in Norwich and educated in England, Zimbabwe, Australia and Wales. He studied English at Exeter College, Oxford. His first children's book, Count Karlstein, was published in 1982. To date, he has published thirty-three books, read by children and adults alike. His most famous work is the His Dark Materials trilogy.

These books have been honoured by several prizes including the Carnegie Medal, the Guardian Children's Book Prize, and (for The Amber Spyglass) the Whitbread Book of the Year Award - the first time that prize had been given to a children's book. Pullman has received numerous other awards, including the Eleanor Farjeon Award and the Astrid Lindgren Award. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year's Honours List for Services to Literature.