The Secret Commonwealth - DeluxeIt is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a

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reading codes worked into the fabric of medieval monastic traditions

his talent for finding trouble is still with him

it becomes clear that Iris is not alone in her deep interest in her mothers pastor in her search for a lost manuscript that might hold more secrets than she ever expected

caught between warring factions of royalty and the Church

As she builds a career for herself in the magazine industry

what excited Charlotte Bront about the city and where the devils hide in London

Thomas Edward Lawrence first set foot on the hot sands of Arabia in 1909

demons and dragons collide in one final epic battle in The Discord of Gods

bringing the past colourfully before us

Elizabeth Costello is an Australian writer of international renown

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