Eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead and his. Set in the world that’s come to be known as Lyra’s (for those who haven’t read His Dark Materials, it jumps between realms), one that’s similar enough to our own to be recognisable, albeit with some not insignificant twists (most notably less technology and more magic), a decade before the story that begins in Northern Lights (the first His Dark Materials book), La Belle Sauvage recounts the story of Malcolm Polstead, “eleven years old, with an inquisitive, kindly disposition, a stocky build, and ginger hair,” and his daemon Asta. Philip Pullman returns to the world of His Dark Materials with this magnificent first volume of The Book of Dust. Beloved by readers the world over, the prospect of further chapters in Lyra’s story inflicted agonies of excited suspense since it was first announced that Pullman was writing a new trilogy, The Book of Dust, the first volume of which, La Belle Sauvage, is finally published. Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of his groundbreaking novel The Golden Compass to expand on the story of Lyra, 'one of fantasys most indelible characters.' (The New York Times Magazine) Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything but is not much noticed himself. Philip Pullmans Book of Dust trilogy returns to the world of His Dark Materials. One of the key moments in the plot comes when our hero, young Malcolm, finds an. Book 1 in the series is La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One.
It’s been twenty-two years since we first met the plucky heroine of Philip Pullman’s masterful His Dark Materials trilogy, Lyra Belacqua and her daemon Pantalaimon. Pullman has said in an interview that Dust is ‘an analogy of consciousness’ in La Belle Sauvage, one of the ongoing debates is the precise nature of the fictional Ruzakov field, which is related to Dust, or Ruzakov Particles, and so linked to consciousness.
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