Rhianna Dillon

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Lit Witches: A Fantasy Book Podcast · Philip Pullman on 40 years of storytelling, and saying goodbye to beloved characters · 29 Jun 2026 podcast

Hello and welcome to another episode of Ask Penguin, the podcast all about books, their authors and their publishers.

I'm Rhianna Dillon and I am recording this in Oxfordshire, actually from the home of Philip Pullman.

I'm in his cottage.

I am surrounded by books.

You have no idea how exciting it is to be in the home of somebody whose books you have loved forever.

read for years to sort of sit in the same house that he wrote them in.

It's incredible to look around and see some of his inspirations.

There are also dogs running in and out.

I think a dog walker is on his way.

So if you hear yapping in the background, that's what that is.

Philip Pullman is one of the most beloved and highly respected authors working today, best known for the work of his dark materials.

I came to his work, I think, through the Sally Lockhart Mysteries and then moved on to The Subtle Knife, The Amber Spyglass, and then The Northern Lights because I came to it the wrong way around.

So in this

highly anticipated final volume of The Book of Dust, Philip revisits the world of Lyra and Panteleimon for the final time.

Philip is the winner of so many prestigious awards, including the Carnegie of Carnegies and the Whitbread Award, and his Dark Materials has become such a much-loved classic, with legions of fans across the globe, and it's sold millions of copies worldwide.

So when readers left Lyra in the secret Commonwealth, she was alone in the ruins of a deserted city,

Panta Lyman had run from her in search of her imagination, which he believed she'd lost, and so Lyra travelled across the world from her Oxford home in search of her demon.

As for Malcolm, he was also journeying far from home towards the Silk Roads in search of Lyra.

Now, in the third and final installment, The Rose Field, their quests converge in the most dangerous, breathtaking, and world-changing ways.

They take help from spies, thieves, griffins, witches, old friends, and of course,

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