Lyra's Oxford
by Philip Pullman & Christopher Wormell (illustrator) & John Lawrence (illustrator)
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80
3 Jul 2017
Hardback
Random House Children's Books
Doubleday Children's
9780857535573
Two years after the conclusion of The Amber Spyglass, Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon sit high on the roof of Jordan College, gazing down on the streets of Oxford. But their peace is shattered by a flock of enraged starlings, who seem intent on knocking another bird out of the sky - a bird that Lyra and Pan quickly realise is a witch's daemon. The daemon carries worrying tidings of a terrible sickness spreading in the north, and claims that only Lyra can help him - but is he really friend, or foe?
Illustrated throughout with exquisite wood-cut engravings by John Lawrence, this beautifully packaged story also contains an extract of Pullman's second short story set in the His Dark Materials world, Once Upon a Time in the North, a map and other missives that seem to have slipped from Lyra's world into our own.
If you love the magical world of His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman you shouldn’t ignore the four companion novellas. These stories offer a peek into different details of the world and characters we love from the trilogy. I’m a sucker for completing a set and these are four adorable, small hardbacks. As well as expanding on the HDM world they are superb storytelling, charmingly illustrated/engraved, offer the extra details we get from letters, maps and diagrams, and as one reviewer commented, “everything Pullman has to write is worth reading”. There are definite nods to Edgar Allen Poe in one of the stories, another reads like an arctic western and for me engaging again with the characters I love, Lee Scoresby and his daemon Hestor, and the armoured bear Iorek Byrninson, is such a pleasure. These are delightful ways back into HDM with the same perfectly formed mystery and magic.
Roger, Little Unity
