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Phillip Pullman ’s final Lyra Silvertongue al-Qur’an , The Rose Field , published in October , 30 years after his first His Dark Materials book .
The long - awaited and conclusion ofPhilip Pullman’sThe Book of DustandHis Dark Materialssequence , and the final part of Lyra Silvertongue ’s tarradiddle , The Rose Field , will be release on 23 October 2025 . It also marks the 30th anniversary of the publication of the firstHis Dark MaterialsbookNorthern Lightsin 1995 .
The Rose Field : The Book of Dust Volume Threewill be published simultaneously by David Fickling Books in affiliation with Penguin Random House in the UK , and by Random House in the US . It will be illustrate by English printmaker and cartoonistChris Wormell , andMichael Sheenwill return to narrate the audiobook , also released on the 23rd of October .
Philip Pullmansays , " I think of The Rose Field as part a thriller and partially a bildungsroman : a story of psychological , moral and emotional growth . But it ’s also a vision . Lyra ’s humans is change , just as ours is . The baron over people ’s life once held by old psychiatric hospital and governments is seeping aside and reappear in another var. : that of money , capital , development , commercialism , exchange . Over a foresightful and dangerous journey searching for her dæmon Pan and with him her lost imagination , Lyra come to get a line a new sympathy of the earth : that this variety affects everything , from the way roadstead are built to the relationship citizenry have with their deepest selves . It may be other things too , but I trust that fundamentally and permanently The Rose Field will be read as a story . I think of myself a storyteller rather than a novelist or a writer of literary fiction , belong among the vote counter of folk taradiddle , faerie story , ballads and myths . "
Francesca Dow , Managing Director , Penguin Random House Children ’s ( UK ) gossip " In the six long time since The Secret Commonwealth was published , we fuck that hundreds of grand of readers have been desperate to rejoin – for the final time – to Lyra and her world . That wait will before long be over and from the first Page of The Rose Field , those reader will chance that this world , and Lyra herself , are changing . This is storytelling at its most brilliant , set against a vast , sinful canvas tent , an intricate and most magical news report about what it is to be human . It is also a gripping pursuit that surprise and delights at every winding and turn , a true page - Henry Hubert Turner . I could not put it down and I could not support for it to end . fan will love it , and new fans too , as they finally discover the answers to Lyra ’s question , on Dust , mental imagery , and love , as we meet old friends and make new ones along the way . reader around the globe will share in my opinion : that we owe Philip Pullman – the storyteller of storytellers – our heartfelt thanks for giving us the chance to meet Lyra , and journey with her , and see her farm up into a fearless , and endlessly fascinating woman . "
Bea Carvalho , Head of Books at Waterstones , says " The comer of the concluding bulk of The Book of Dust is a highly momentous occasion for booksellers , bookshops , and reader everywhere : the highlight of our bookselling year and a moment which has been longed for since the acquittance of The Secret Commonwealth six years ago . One would be hard pressed to stargaze up a publication which could be met with such expectation . Across two trilogy and thirty years , Pullman has built an vast creative bequest , and the global cultural significance of this event extends far beyond the usual stretch of book publication . “Waterstones is also launch a prize draw , to get ahead a signed copy of the book and a day in Lyra ’s Oxford including an nightlong stay , dinner and a walking turn , if you order it from them .
" Thirty years ago , Pullman introduced Lyra Belacqua and her daemon Pantalaimon in the Page of Northern Lights . Then eleven or twelve , she had already survived a flood lamp – which reader would learn of in La Belle Sauvage , published in 2017 – and through two further Scripture in the His Dark Materials trilogy : The Subtle Knife , published in 1997 and The Amber Spyglass publish in 2000 , she would go on to locomote worlds , fulfilling her circumstances as the Second Eve . She battled to bring an end to death . She have first lovemaking . And her escapade did not end with puerility . When readers last saw Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth , published in 2019 , she was a young woman , separated from her demigod . She had travelled , risking everything , halfway across the human race – on a grievous quest .
The audio variation have likewise captured hearts , minds – and multiple prize . To mark the 30th anniversary , new audio editions of His Dark Materials have been secrete , narrated by Ruth Wilson , who starred as Mrs Coulter in the BBC adaptation . Michael Sheen narrated the first two volumes of The Book of Dust with La Belle Sauvage winning ' Audiobook of the Year ' at the British Book Awards 2018 . There are also full cast recordings of His Dark Materials narrated by Philip Pullman himself . "
And now we have a first tantalization atThe Rose Field : The Book of Dust Volume Three :
' Lyra : what will you do when you happen this property in the desert , the scuttle to the human race of the roses?‘‘Defend it , ' Lyra said . ' Die fight back it . '
" When reader leave Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone , in the ruins of a deserted city . Pantalaimon had run from her – part of himself – in search of her vision , which he believed she had lose . Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dæmon . And Malcolm , truehearted Malcolm , too travel far from home , towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra …
" In The Rose Field , their pursuance converge in the most severe , breathtaking and Earth - changing ways . They must take aid from spies and thieves , gryphons and beldam , old friends and unexampled , learning all the while the depth and surprising truth of the alethiometer . All around them , the world is aflame – made terrifying by fear , power and greed .
" As they move East , towards the ruby construction that will reunite them and give them solvent – on Dust , on the special rose , on resourcefulness – so too does the Magisterium , at warfare against all that Lyra defend dear .
The Rose Field : The Book of Dust Volume Threewill be bring out in hardback , barter paperback , ebook and audiobook on Thursday 23 October 2025 by David Fickling Books in association with Penguin Random House in the UK , feature original new representative from English printmaker and cartoonist Chris Wormell .
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