Philip Pullman offers first look at His Dark Materials follow-up The Book of Dust

Author is returning to his enchanted Oxford for more fantasy adventures involving his heroine Lyra and a boy called Malcolm An 11-year-old boy called Malcolm Polstead – who lives in an inn on the banks of the river Thames in Oxford – will be at the centre of the first volume of Philip Pullman’s hotly anticipated new trilogy. The Book of Dust will be a companion trilogy to his global bestselling series His Dark Materials. Details of the first instalment, La Belle Sauvage, were revealed on Friday by Pullman’s publishers Penguin Random House Children’s and David Fickling Books.