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class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1f/The_Book_of_Dust.jpg" decoding="async" width="194" height="300" class="mw-file-element" data-file-width="194" data-file-height="300" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">First volume cover</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><hr /><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/La_Belle_Sauvage" title="La Belle Sauvage">La Belle Sauvage</a></i></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Commonwealth" title="The Secret Commonwealth">The Secret Commonwealth</a></i></li> <li>Untitled third book</li></ul> </div><hr /></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Author</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Fantasy_novel" class="mw-redirect" title="Fantasy novel">Fantasy novel</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Publisher</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Scholastic_Corporation" title="Scholastic Corporation">Scholastic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Published</th><td class="infobox-data">2017–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardback & paperback)</td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Book of Dust</b></i> is a <a href="/wiki/Trilogy" title="Trilogy">trilogy</a> of <a href="/wiki/Fantasy_literature" title="Fantasy literature">fantasy novels</a> by <a href="/wiki/Philip_Pullman" title="Philip Pullman">Philip Pullman</a>, which expands his trilogy <i><a href="/wiki/His_Dark_Materials" title="His Dark Materials">His Dark Materials</a></i>. The books further chronicle the adventures of <a href="/wiki/Lyra_Belacqua" title="Lyra Belacqua">Lyra Belacqua</a> and her battle against the <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocratic</a> organisation known as the Magisterium, and shed more light on the mysterious substance called <a href="/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials)" title="Dust (His Dark Materials)">Dust</a>. </p><p>The first book, <i><a href="/wiki/La_Belle_Sauvage" title="La Belle Sauvage">La Belle Sauvage</a></i>, was published in October 2017, and is set 12 years before <i><a href="/wiki/Northern_Lights_(Pullman_novel)" title="Northern Lights (Pullman novel)">Northern Lights</a></i>. It describes how the 11-year-old Malcolm Polstead and the 15-year-old Alice protect the infant Lyra; leading to her being in the care of Jordan College. It introduces the research by academics and other free-thinkers into <a href="/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials)" title="Dust (His Dark Materials)">Dust</a>, a mysterious <a href="/wiki/Subatomic_particle" title="Subatomic particle">subatomic particle</a> related to consciousness, and the origins of Lyra's <a href="/wiki/Alethiometer" class="mw-redirect" title="Alethiometer">alethiometer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GdnDkean2_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GdnDkean2-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The second book, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Commonwealth" title="The Secret Commonwealth">The Secret Commonwealth</a></i>, was published on 3 October 2019 and is set after the events in the original trilogy with Lyra as a twenty-year-old undergraduate.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Work on the third book in the series had not commenced at that time. </p><p>Pullman has said that the trilogy addresses <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>: "Perhaps the oldest philosophical question of all: are we matter? Or are we spirit and matter? What is consciousness if there is no spirit? Questions like that are of perennial fascination and they haven’t been solved yet, thank goodness."<sup id="cite_ref-:12_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He added that the series might be slightly darker than the original, and quipped that it could alternatively be titled "<i><b>His Darker Materials</b></i>".<sup id="cite_ref-:12_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History_of_the_trilogy">History of the trilogy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Book_of_Dust&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History of the trilogy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Pullman conceived <i>The Book of Dust</i> before the publication of <i><a href="/wiki/Lyra%27s_Oxford" title="Lyra's Oxford">Lyra's Oxford</a></i> in 2003<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian-06Apr03_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-06Apr03-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in 2005 he confirmed the book was "under way".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early on he described it as being a longer book than he had initially imagined<sup id="cite_ref-Guardian-03Aug07_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-03Aug07-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and later that he was considering writing two volumes, one set before <i>His Dark Materials</i> and the other set afterwards.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017 Pullman stated that <i>The Book of Dust</i> would be a new trilogy, and announced the publication of the first part, <i>La Belle Sauvage,</i><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> published on 19 October 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The books are jointly published by Random House Children's and David Fickling Books in the United Kingdom, and by <a href="/wiki/Random_House" title="Random House">Random House Children's Books</a> in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Books">Books</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Book_of_Dust&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Books"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Book of Dust</i> takes place before, during and after the original trilogy; Pullman described it as an "equel", rather than a sequel, which "will begin and end with Lyra".<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Pullman's words the story's main focus is: “the struggle between a despotic and totalitarian organisation, which wants to stifle speculation and enquiry, and those who believe thought and speech should be free”.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The books will touch on research into <a href="/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials)" title="Dust (His Dark Materials)">Dust</a>, the cosmic matter that governs consciousness.<sup id="cite_ref-GdnDkean2_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GdnDkean2-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Pullman said the trilogy addresses <a href="/wiki/Consciousness" title="Consciousness">consciousness</a>: "Perhaps the oldest philosophical question of all: are we matter? Or are we spirit and matter? What is consciousness if there is no spirit? Questions like that are of perennial fascination and they haven’t been solved yet, thank goodness.”<sup id="cite_ref-:12_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="La_Belle_Sauvage"><i>La Belle Sauvage</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Book_of_Dust&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: La Belle Sauvage"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/La_Belle_Sauvage" title="La Belle Sauvage">La Belle Sauvage</a></div> <p>The first book, <i>La Belle Sauvage</i>, was published in October 2017, and is set around 11 years before <i><a href="/wiki/Northern_Lights_(Pullman_novel)" title="Northern Lights (Pullman novel)">Northern Lights</a></i>. It describes how the 11-year-old Malcolm Polstead and the 15-year-old Alice protect the infant Lyra; leading to her being in the care of Jordan College. It introduces the research by academics and other free-thinkers into <a href="/wiki/Dust_(His_Dark_Materials)" title="Dust (His Dark Materials)">Dust</a>, a mysterious <a href="/wiki/Subatomic_particle" title="Subatomic particle">subatomic particle</a> related to consciousness, and the origins of Lyra's <a href="/wiki/Alethiometer" class="mw-redirect" title="Alethiometer">alethiometer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-GdnDkean2_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GdnDkean2-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_Secret_Commonwealth"><i>The Secret Commonwealth</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Book_of_Dust&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: The Secret Commonwealth"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Secret_Commonwealth" title="The Secret Commonwealth">The Secret Commonwealth</a></div> <p>The second volume, <i>The Secret Commonwealth</i>, was published on 3 October 2019, and begins with Lyra as a 20-year-old undergraduate. It involves her journeying to the Far East via the <a href="/wiki/Levant" title="Levant">Levant</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:12_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:12-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:2_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Secret Commonwealth</i> takes its title from a compilation of folklore by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Kirk_(folklorist)" title="Robert Kirk (folklorist)">Robert Kirk</a> that Pullman has said is one of his favourite books.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_third_book">The third book</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Book_of_Dust&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: The third book"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>During a launch event for <i>The Secret Commonwealth</i> in October 2019, Pullman said, "We can see where the story is going in this book. It's going towards <a href="/wiki/Central_Asia" title="Central Asia">Central Asia</a>, it involves roses and it involves Dust. That's all I can tell you⁠—I don't even have a title for it yet!"<sup id="cite_ref-:2_16-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though he had earlier mentioned possible titles such as <i>The Garden of Roses</i> or <i>Roses from the South</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A short excerpt of the first chapter is available as part of an interview on the blog of <a href="/wiki/Goldsmiths,_University_of_London" title="Goldsmiths, University of London">Goldsmiths, University of London</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 11 February 2023, Pullman said on Twitter that he had written 350 pages of the book.<sup id="cite_ref-Twitter_11_February_2023_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Twitter_11_February_2023-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In November 2023, Pullman announced that he had written 500 pages of a 540-page novel which would conclude the trilogy. He added that it would be published sometime in 2024, though he had yet to decide on a title.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In mid-August 2024, Pullman said on Twitter that the book was finished, but that it still needed to be edited.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the end of January 2025, Pullman confirmed on Twitter that the book was finished and that he "very much hope[d] that it'll be published this year".<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Adaptations">Adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Book_of_Dust&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The first book was adapted into a play of the same name by <a href="/wiki/Bryony_Lavery" title="Bryony Lavery">Bryony Lavery</a>. A production of which, directed by <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Hytner" title="Nicholas Hytner">Nicholas Hytner</a>, played at the <a href="/wiki/Bridge_Theatre" title="Bridge Theatre">Bridge Theatre</a> between November 2021 and February 2022 and which was broadcast by <a href="/wiki/National_Theatre_Live" title="National Theatre Live">National Theatre Live</a> on February 17, 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Book_of_Dust&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-GdnDkean2-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-GdnDkean2_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GdnDkean2_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-GdnDkean2_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFKean2017" class="citation news cs1">Kean, Danuta (14 February 2017). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/15/philip-pullman-unveils-epic-fantasy-trilogy-the-book-of-dust">"Philip Pullman unveils epic fantasy trilogy The Book of Dust"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 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