![]() As those characters warn, “It’s very complicated.” Would it serve you to have recently read (or re-read) the other books mentioned above in the immediate run-up to reading this book? Quite possibly. The action of The Secret Commonwealth leaps forward in time, to almost ten years after the events of His Dark Materials. ![]() Do you have to have read His Dark Materials? Very much so. Before we get into it: do you have to have read La Bella Sauvage to read this? Indefatigably yes. You’ll remember, we had the first part, La Belle Sauvage, about 18 months ago, a story that was itself set a decade or so prior to the events captured in Pullman’s earlier trilogy, His Dark Materials. ![]() ![]() “It’s very complicated,” says one character to another at least twice over the course of The Secret Commonwealth, the second part of Philip Pullman’s The Book of Dust. ![]()
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