Witches, thieves and gryphons – a grand finale to Lyra's quest

The wait is over - the final instalment of Sir Philip Pullman's The Book of Dust series hits bookshop shelves this week.

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The Rose Field is the third volume in The Book of Dust series, which expands on the His Dark Materials trilogy. It began in 2017 with La Belle Sauvage, set 12 years before Northern Lights, and continued with The Secret Commonwealth in 2019, set after the events of the original trilogy.

The new book picks up where that one left off, with Lyra alone in the ruins of a deserted city, where she has gone in search of her dæmon. Another important character from the previous books, Malcolm, has travelled towards the Silk Roads to look for Lyra.