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A Short Story from the World of His Dark Materials and the Book of Dust

by Philip Pullman & Tom Duxbury (illustrator)

'D'you - er - have you seen her before?' 'Yes. I know who she is.' 'But, Grinstead, this painting is seventy years old - probably nearer eighty! You're not being serious - I mean . . . What do you mean?'

On a dark winter's night in 1970, Horley and Grinstead huddle for warmth in the Senior Common Room of a college in Oxford. Conversation turns to the two impressive works of art that Horley has recently added to his collection.

What the two men don't know is that these pieces are connected in mysterious and improbable ways; and they are about to be caught in the cross-fire of a story which has travelled time and worlds.
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Pages:

80

Published:

Jan 2023

Format

Hardback

Publisher

Penguin Books, Limited

Imprint

Penguin UK

ISBN:

9780241475256

'D'you - er - have you seen her before?'
'Yes. I know who she is.'
'But, Grinstead, this painting is seventy years old - probably nearer eighty! You're not being serious - I mean . . . What do you mean?'

On a dark winter's night in 1970, Horley and Grinstead huddle for warmth in the Senior Common Room of a college in Oxford. Conversation turns to the two impressive works of art that Horley has recently added to his collection.

What the two men don't know is that these pieces are connected in mysterious and improbable ways; and they are about to be caught in the cross-fire of a story which has travelled time and worlds.
$21.00

If you love the magical world of His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman you shouldn’t ignore the four companion novellas. These stories offer a peek into different details of the world and characters we love from the trilogy. I’m a sucker for completing a set and these are four adorable, small hardbacks. As well as expanding on the HDM world they are superb storytelling, charmingly illustrated/engraved, offer the extra details we get from letters, maps and diagrams, and as one reviewer commented, “everything Pullman has to write is worth reading”. There are definite nods to Edgar Allen Poe in one of the stories, another reads like an arctic western and for me engaging again with the characters I love, Lee Scoresby and his daemon Hestor, and the armoured bear Iorek Byrninson, is such a pleasure. These are delightful ways back into HDM with the same perfectly formed mystery and magic.

Roger's avatarRoger, Little Unity