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The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) Audiobook
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • DON’T MISS THE EPIC FINALE TO THE BOOK OF DUST: THE ROSE FIELD, AVAILABLE NOW!
Return to the world of His Dark Materials with the first book of a landmark trilogy.
“People will love the first volume of Philip Pullman’s new trilogy with the same helpless vehemence that stole over them when The Golden Compass came out.”—Slate
“It’s a stunning achievement, this universe Pullman has created and continues to build on.”—The New York Times
Malcolm Polstead is the kind of boy who notices everything, and the things he sees trouble him deeply. Enforcement agents from the Magisterium appear in his family’s inn. The explorer Lord Asriel has a precious secret to hide. A gyptian named Coram warns him of a coming flood. A criminal and a beautiful woman, both with disturbing daemons, ask about the same thing—a child, just a baby, named Lyra.
Lyra is the kind of person who draws people in like magnets. Malcolm sees that she is at the center of a great and powerful storm. And he will brave any danger, and make shocking sacrifices, to see her safely home.
Look for the entire trilogy of THE BOOK OF DUST:
La Belle Sauvage • The Secret Commonwealth • The Rose Field
And Lyra’s adventures begin in HIS DARK MATERIALS:
The Golden Compass • The Subtle Knife • The Amber Spyglass
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“There’s something pleasingly old-fashioned about Michael Sheen’s narration…Sheen fully inhabits the text, and he’s utterly believable as eleven-year-old Malcolm Polstead…Sheen ramps up the tense urgency during frightening action sequences, making palpable all of the danger and terror, and his rendition of the eerie, alarming laugh of a hyena daemon is sure to unnerve listeners…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
— AudioFile
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“Actor Michael Sheen brings the rich timbre of his Welsh voice to Pullman’s The Book of Dust…Sheen’s voice truly contains multitudes, capturing the nature of each character with brio and passing from speaker to speaker with preternatural limberness. This is an audiobook for everyone over the age of eight.”
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“Blending a haunting and literary story with the deep, rhythmic voice of Michael Sheen, this audiobook is a mesmerizing and vivid tale.”
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“The book is full of wonder…Truly thrilling.”
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“High-octane adventure accompanies ingenious plotting.”
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“Too few things in our world are worth a seventeen year wait: The Book of Dust is one of them.”
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“Reading this novel is like standing in a room in which suddenly all of the windows have blown open at once.”
— Slate
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Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
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An Amazon Best Book of the Month selection
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A Washington Post Best Audiobook of 2017
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A Washington Post Notable Book of Fiction for 2017
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Winner of an Odyssey Award for Best Audiobooks for Children
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Finalist for the World Science Fiction Society Award
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Finalist for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Young Adult Book
The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1) Listener Reviews
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Teri ALBERICO, 7/23/2022
About Philip Pullman
Philip Pullman is the Whitbread Award–winning author of the bestselling His Dark Materials series—The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass—as well as the Sally Lockhart trio of Victorian mysteries and other books for young readers. Among his other awards, he has won the prestigious Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award in honor of the body of his work.
About Michael Sheen
Michael Sheen, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, has been seen widely on stage and screen. His major theatrical roles include Henry V, Peer Gynt, Jimmy Porter in Look Back in Anger as well as appearances in Pinter’s Moonlight and The Homecoming. Among his film work is Wilde, Mary Reilly, and Othello. Since leaving RADA, he has recorded numerous audiobooks, including Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment and The Idiot, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Great Poems of the Romantic Age, and Oedipus the King. He has also directed and read the part of Romeo in Romeo and Juliet for Naxos AudioBooks.