I found myself daydreaming a number of events involving Lyra and the people around Lyra. “The Secret Commonwealth” is the second in your new trilogy, The Book of Dust, which returns to the world that you created in His Dark Materials. I must find a way of donating books to prison libraries, because that’s something that I really think should have them. Books arrive from different publishers for me to have a look at, and that’s nice, too. Every time I go out, I accidentally buy books. The latest to arrive goes on top of the pile.That’s all I manage to arrange. It’s certainly that.You can tell from all the clutter.ĭo you have a system for organizing all the books? Pullman lives with his wife and two cockapoos in Oxfordshire he spoke with The New Yorker over the phone on a recent afternoon. The trilogy’s second book, “ The Secret Commonwealth,” will be published in October and an adaptation of His Dark Materials, starring James McAvoy, Ruth Wilson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, and the newcomer Dafne Keen, will appear on HBO the following month. In 2017, he returned to Lyra’s world with “ La Belle Sauvage,” the first in a planned trilogy called The Book of Dust, named for the mysterious particle linked to consciousness that lie at the heart of His Dark Materials. Before becoming a writer, he taught middle school. Pullman, who has written books for both adults and children, including the Sally Lockheart quartet, numerous fairy tales, and a reimagining of the New Testament, considers himself a storyteller first and foremost.
His novels value experience over the preservation of innocence, though that transition doesn’t come without a cost I can’t have been the only fourteen-year-old to weep over the ending of “ The Amber Spyglass” (2000), the trilogy’s final novel. Pullman, a lover of William Blake, is famously, ardently atheist.
That book introduced one of the most memorable child heroines in English literature: Lyra Belacqua, a scruffy and imperious ward of Oxford’s Jordan College, who is left mostly to her own devices until she is thrust into the complicated business of saving the world from the Magisterium, a shadowy church that wants to do away with original sin. But the English writer Philip Pullman was wise to take Milton as a muse for His Dark Materials, his renowned trilogy, which began with the publication of “ The Golden Compass,” in 1995. “Paradise Lost” might not seem like a promising conceit for a young-adult fantasy novel in which people have animal-shaped souls called dæmons and the fate of the universe rests on the wiles of a preteen ragamuffin and the strength of an armored bear.
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