The long-awaited and highly anticipated conclusion to Philip Pullman's bestselling The Book of
Dust sequence . . . 'Lyra: what will you do when you find this place in the desert the
opening to the world of the roses?' 'Defend it ' Lyra said. 'Die defending it.' When
readers left Lyra in The Secret Commonwealth she was alone in the ruins of a deserted city.
Pantalaimon had run from her - part of himself - in search of her imagination which he
believed she had lost. Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her
dæmon. And Malcolm loyal Malcolm too journeyed far from home towards the Silk Roads in
search of Lyra . . . In The Rose Field their quests converge in the most dangerous
breathtaking and world-changing ways. They must take help from spies and thieves gryphons and
witches old friends and new learning all the while the depth and surprising truths of the
alethiometer. All around them the world is aflame - made terrifying by fear power and greed.
As they move East towards the red building that will reunite them and give them answers - on
Dust on the special roses on imagination - so too does the Magisterium at war against all
that Lyra holds dear. Marking thirty years since the world was first introduced to Pullman's
remarkable heroine Lyra Belacqua in Northern Lights The Rose Field is the culmination of the
cultural phenomenon of The Book of Dust and His Dark Materials. 'Ablaze with light and life .
. . To read Pullman is to experience the world refreshed aglow in technicolour' - Independent
