The Rose Field

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The Rose Field
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Author Philip Pullman
Illustrator Christopher Wormell
LanguageEnglish
Series The Book of Dust
Release number
3
Genre Fantasy
Publisher Penguin Random House
Publication date
23 October 2025 [1]
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
ISBN 978-0-241-79757-0
Preceded by The Secret Commonwealth  

The Rose Field is a fantasy novel by Philip Pullman. [2] It is the third volume in The Book of Dust series and the final book about the character Lyra Silvertongue. [2] [3] The book was published on 23 October 2025 by David Fickling Books in association with Penguin Random House and Alfred A. Knopf. [2] [3] [4] The Rose Field is set directly after The Secret Commonwealth , which was published in 2019. [4]

Contents

The story follows the events of the previous book, as Lyra is alone in search of her dæmon and Malcolm has travelled in search of her. [2] It is set twenty years or so after the events of La Belle Sauvage and ten years after the conclusion of the His Dark Materials trilogy. [2]

Title

The "Rose Field" of the title refers to a field in the sense of a magnetic or gravitational field, first mentioned in the opening chapters of Northern Lights during a discussion of the mysterious phenomenon called Dust. [3] The Rose Field was previously known as the Rusakov field. It is the field of Dust.

Conception

Pullman experienced challenges writing the novel due to the COVID-19 pandemic and aging. [5] [6] In an interview with The Washington Post , he described writing by computer instead of on paper, due to pain in his hand: "I couldn't write this one by hand as I had for the previous 50, 60 years. I had to type it all on the computer." [5] In another interview, Pullman described his feelings on the culmination of his The Book of Dust series, stating: "This whole series took 30 years. And you don't undertake a task like that unless you can do it with all your being, including your moral being." [6]

References

  1. ↑ "The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three". Penguin Books. Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Knight, Lucy (29 April 2025). "Philip Pullman announces The Rose Field, the final part of Lyra's story". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 3 Youngs, Ian (29 April 2025). "Philip Pullman 'relieved' to finish Lyra's final book". BBC News . Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 Schaub, Michael (29 April 2025). "New Novel by Philip Pullman Coming This Fall". Kirkus Reviews . Retrieved 29 April 2025.
  5. 1 2 Nguyen, Sophia (23 October 2025). "'I'm alive, but battered': Philip Pullman's new novel was a struggle". The Washington Post. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved 24 October 2025.
  6. 1 2 Thomas-Corr, Johanna (23 October 2025). "Philip Pullman at 79: 'When I write, nothing bad can happen'". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 24 October 2025.
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