La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One

Author: Philip Pullman

Interest age: from c 12 years

Published on 3 September 2018 by Penguin Random House Children's UK (Penguin and David Fickling Books) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 592 pages, Chris Wormell
131 x 197 x 38 | 474g

Winner - Author of the Year, British Book AwardsPhilip Pullman's magnificent bestseller now in paperback, with new additional illustrations. A coming of age story like no other . . .

Malcolm Polstead's Oxford life has been one of routine, ordinary even. He is happiest playing with his daemon, Asta, in their canoe, La Belle Sauvage. But now as the rain builds, the world around Malcolm and Asta is, it seems, set to become increasingly far from ordinary.

Finding himself linked to a baby by the name of Lyra Belacqua, Malcolm is forced to undertake the challenge of his life and to make a dangerous journey that will change him and Lyra for ever . . .