🇬🇧 RELEASE DATE! The British paperback edition of Philip Pullman's The Rose Field is scheduled for a release on July 16, 2026. www.penguin.co.uk/books/312002...

Some news are much harder to share than others: a wonderful 24y-long adventure will end later this year. All my gratitude to Nef for everything Cittàgazze enabled over the years: a marvelous home and community for sraffies, lifelong friendships, precious happy memories, travels & so much more. G.

Dear all, Happy new year from the CityofMagpies folks to the sraffie world. May this new year bring you and your loved ones health, joy, happiness, peace and Dust wherever you are. Hopefully we'll have nice Dust-related news to share and discuss in the coming months. Wishing you the best,

📚 Covers for Philip Pullman's books released in 2025. Artists identified as Christopher Wormell, Peter Bailey, Rovina Cai, Jeff Miller and Hwang Bu-yong.

This Sir Philip Pullman interview with The Washington Post dates back from October and the release of The Rose Field and we did not notice at that time. Sorry for that. www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

Worth a read! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

2026's expected releases: March 13: 🇸🇪 Rosenfältet (Natur Ok Kultur, tr.: Helena Hansson) March 19: 🇬🇷 O Rodona (Psichogios, tr: Kontoleon Kostia) March 26: 🇩🇪 Das Feld der Rosen (Carlsen, tr: Antoinette Gittinger, audiobook read by Rufus Beck) April 26: 🇬🇧 The Rose Field (💿CD edition, Penguin)

Merry Christmas to all of you celebrating it.🎄 May it bring happy moments with family & friends and Dust storm all around. Enjoy the day!

💿The physical, CD edition of Philip Pullman's #TheRoseField audiobook will be published on April 30, 2026. www.penguin.co.uk/books/312002...

Seems there’s a new Philip Pullman event as he joins @questingvole.bsky.social at the @britishlibrary.bsky.social to open the Library’s Fairy Tales exhibition. Online and in person tickets available now. events.bl.uk/events/haunt...

It’s a sad day when you hear that Jack Shepherd has passed away at age 85. Jack played the Master in the Golden Compass film among many other highlights to his career. Much love to his family and friends.

(REVIEW) "Alongside much food for thought and a resistance towards offering simplistic or easy answers, there is skilful storytelling throughout – surprising twists, daring exploits and moving encounters rendered in gorgeous, elegant prose." ⚠️(Slight spoilers)

Rowan Williams about Philip Pullman's The Rose Field ⚠️SPOILERS: avoid this article unless you've already completed your read! observer.co.uk/culture/book...

An interview with Kristen Poole, former Visiting Fellow at Exeter College in Oxford (alma mater to Philip Pullman) and also author of "Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination", published earlier this year. youtu.be/MIvtP5fFvVo

We are delighted to share a new interview with former Visiting Fellow, Professor Kristen Poole, about her book Philip Pullman and the Historical Imagination. Read more: https://ow.ly/BvFs50XlFC6 #ExeterCollegeOxford

Wonderful to hear Philip Pullman talking at the Stratford Literary Festival - a great insight to The Rose Field and His Dark Materials. Have some notes to go through but for now enjoy these shots and check out Stratford lit fest’s stories on instagram for some quotes.

'Pullman decided to return to Lyra’s story because of where he’d left her back in 2000. (...) “What’s she going to do for the rest of her life? Learn Latin and French and play netball? I don’t think so. She needed another adventure.' By Sarah Lyall www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/b... (⚠️Slight spoilers)

Today was important.☺️ I purposely headed under a grey sky to nearby downtown Strasbourg, sat on knotted roots, right at the foot of a majestic 140yo+ ginkgo biloba tree, and quietly read the last fifty pages of a story I've been cherishing for over two decades. Wishing you all a similar pleasure, G.

A short interview with Philip Pullman, published last week by Waterstones: Sir Philip talks about imagination, his latest book and his next, too. ⚠️Some slight spoilers in the course of the discussion. youtu.be/MOk_669jUQM

Halloween? Very fine with me. As long as you let me read The Rose Field.

Unfortunately Friday’s Philip Pullman event at Goldsmiths with Michael Rosen has been postponed. Information about a future date is yet to be confirmed - but attendees should receive an email stating options if people would prefer a refund.

🇩🇪 Erscheinungsdatum bekannt! Das Feld der Rosen wird ab 26. März 2026 im Deutschland durch Carlsen Verlag verfügbar! ** The German edition of Philip Pullman's #TheRoseField 🌹 will be available from March 26, 2026! ⚠️📕Here's a great cover (but a bit spoilery, too): www.carlsen.de/hardcover/hi...

As the Rose Field is now out, let's have some warm thoughts for Christine Baker, who enthusiastically introduced French readers to Lyra, and for Laurie Frost, author of The Elements of HDM and always prone to discuss with sraffies through her blog & social network accounts. We'll read for them, too.

🥹 And now the final part begins... #EnjoyYourRead

Northern hemisphere daylight saving time: let's turn the small needle of alethiometers one symbol backward! The good point is: * if your Rose Field copy was delivered in time, it offers you one more hour to read about Lyra's quest, * if not... well, at least you'll sleep and thus forget your misery.

@biology.ox.ac.uk (This post started as a joke... but I'm now somehow curious to get elements to answer to that, a polar bear being - obviously - no horse. Thank you very much for any feedback you may provide!🐻‍❄️)

#StuffToDoBecauseYouDidNotReceiveTheRoseField Considering how Lyra rides Iorek, regarding biomechanics. Movie puts her on his back, TV-show on his neck and book covers hesitate. What's more realistic? Convenient? For him? For her? Should we organize IRL scientific experiments (replete bears, only)?

#StuffToDoBecauseYouDidNotReceiveTheRoseField A good friend led me through the whole of #DowntonAbbey this year. As I just rewatched #TheGoldenCompass today after a long time, my sraffie life is now transmuted as I realize that King John Faa and Charles Carson are one and only person: Jim Carter. 🤯

Hat trick. Bad joke.

History repeats itself.

⚠️Spoiler content NOT evaluated --> read at your own risk! (your editor is too scared to read about any unfortunate detail regarding THE book as he's still waiting for his copies to reach his mailbox and favorite bookstore...)

To those waiting for their copy to be delivered: the A-website provides you access to the first pages as a sample read! You now know about the window: it's up to you to choose if you want to cross into that other world right now or wait for the book. NB: your bookless editor is too weak to resist.

Readers queued outside Blackwell's this morning to buy Philip Pullman's final book about Lyra Belacqua, 'The Rose Field'. The shop opened an hour early for the last part in the Book of Dust trilogy, partly set in Oxford.

(I ordered it six months ago)

Time has come. The wait is over. Enjoy every sparkle of it. On a bench or wherever you'll read, treasure every letter of it. Keep yourself and the others away from spoilers. Have a fabulous read. And many thanks to Sir Philip.

Author Philip Pullman calls on government to act over 'wicked' AI scraping Also, a new confirmation that Sir Philip "is now writing a memoir about his 'unusual childhood' and a picture of the world he grew up in." www.bbc.com/news/article...

As some copies of #TheRoseField start their life outside of bookstores, please remember you can all obiously share your absolute JOY and big EXCITMENT and HAPPINESS of reading the book AT LAST. ⚠️But PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not SPOIL anyone about anything about the book and its content! THANK YOU 🌹❤️

Our most sincere Dusty birthday wishes go this day to Sir Philip Pullman. 🎂

🥹THURSDAY!

Morning all. Today @theguardian.com has a treat for us. An exclusive extract from #TheRoseField in both written and audio book form. Not long now! www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Any sraffie who can't make it to Oxford on Saturday 25th October for the Philip Pullman event with Hannah Macinnes at the Sheldonian Theater will be glad to note that Blackwell's & Waterstones are providing £5-tickets for the online livestream of the event! More: www.waterstones.com/events/onlin...

Michael Sheen on X: "I was able to speak with Philip Pullman about his new novel, The Rose Field, and the 30-year legacy of the His Dark Materials series. You’ll be able to hear the full conversation at the end of the audiobook, which is narrated by me. Pre-order it here: adbl.co/3VQY8vU"

Michael Sheen and Philip Pullman for 'The Rose Field' conversation feature in the audiobook to be released on October 23 www.instagram.com/p/DPgDqrMCH6...

(15 days!)

🎉🥳 🇸🇪 Sweden will get a local edition of #TheRoseField (Rosenfältet) on March 26, 2026, translated by Helena Hansson for publisher Natur&Kultur. ⚠️The swedish cover (by Peter Bergting?) being seemingly a big (expected?) spoiler, so it's up to you to click... or not! 🌹🌹🌹 www.nok.se/titlar/allma...

🇳🇱 Dutch sraffies will be first to get their translated copy of #TheRoseField, HET ROZENVELD, released simultaneously with the British edition on October 23 by Prometheus! The cover (Chris Wormell?) is a wonder. The publisher's summary is quite spoilerish...⚠️🤫 uitgeverijprometheus.nl/boeken/boek-...

Bit of sad news today. Pav the snow leopard who appeared as Daniel Craig’s daemon in The Golden Compass has sadly passed away. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"From the publisher"... This add is visible on the #TheRoseField page from a fAmour online retAiler (you know, this long river in South America...)

#TheRoseField Under the cover of the British edition... (from the A-website)

LESS THAN A MONTH...