![]() ![]() I’m struggling to think of another that has taken me in the same way. Series like His Dark Materials don’t come around very often. But I was doubtful: because His Dark Materials made up the backbone of my literary childhood, because the scene where Will breaks the knife for the second time makes me weep, and because how was I supposed to truly re-invest in a world where my hero and heroine were, respectively, not yet present and barely six months old?Īnd also, let’s be honest, because the term “e-quel” is bad and terrible. He was delightful, a candid and pithy speaker with strident opinions about Brexit. I saw Pullman speak on the banks of the very river that takes centre stage in La Belle Sauvage, and heard him describe his new series as an “e-quel” (both prequel and sequel) to His Dark Materials. ![]() Number three: the first book in Philip Pullman’s fantasy trilogy, La Belle Sauvage, described by our London correspondent Scarlett Cayford as ‘just about perfect’. ![]() All week this Christmas week we countdown the best six books of 2017. ![]()
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