The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three: 3

The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion toPhilip Pullmans bestselling The Book of Dust sequence . . .

A masterpiece for all eternity Powerful, profound and utterlyunforgettable: a stunning trilogy conclusion.– The Telegraph

Pullmans uncanny ability to conjure place is once again in fullevidence . . . And when we reach it, the novels final showdown is afantastically nail-biting ride.– TheGuardian

But for all its intricate interweavings of alchemy and folk tales,ballads and poetry, the book has the pacing of a thriller.-The Times

Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert, theopening to the world of the roses?

Defend it, Lyra said. Die defending it.

When readers left Lyra inThe Secret Commonwealthshe wasalone, in the ruins of a deserted city. Pantalaimon had run from her part ofhimself in search of her imagination, which he believed she had lost. Lyratravelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her dmon. AndMalcolm, loyal Malcolm, too journeyed far from home, towards the Silk Roads insearch of Lyra . . .

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

As they move East, towards the red building that will reunite them and givethem answers on Dust, on the special roses, on imagination so too does theMagisterium, at war against all that Lyra holds dear.

Marking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullmansremarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua inNorthern Lights,TheRose Fieldis the culmination of the cultural phenomenon ofTheBook of DustandHis Dark Materials.

‘Ablaze with light and life . . . To read Pullman is to experience the worldrefreshed, aglow, in technicolour’–The Independent

About the Author

Philip Pullman is one of the most highly respectedchildren’s authors writing today. Winner of many prestigious awards, includingthe Carnegie of Carnegies and the Whitbread Award, Pullmans epic fantasytrilogyHis Dark Materialshas been acclaimed as a modernclassic. It has sold 17.5 million copies worldwide and been translated into 40languages. In 2005 he was awarded the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award. He livesin Oxford.

Chris Wormell is a self-taught artist, and the winner of the Ragazza Prize atBologna in 1991.Two Frogswon the Nestl Bronze Award,Mollyand the Night Monsterwas shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway MedalandOne Smart Fishwon the Booktrust Early Years Awards BestPicture Book.His books includeGeorge and the DragonandTheBig Ugly Monster and the Little Stone Rabbitwhich was recentlyadapted into a stage play. Chris lives in North London with his wife andchildren.