Philip Pullman announces Rose Field, the final novel of the Book of Dust trilogy

Author Philip Pullman revealed the details of the sixth and last book of his series on Lyra Silvertongue, the character at the heart of his dark materials and the book of dust trilogies.

The Rose Field will be published on October 23 and will follow the story of its heroine to the twenties.

She was 11 years old when she was presented in the first best -selling and award -winning material book, Northern Lights, in 1995.

Pullman, 78, said that he was “relieved” to be “out of the ending end and capable of seeing him transformed into a book and published”.

The pink field refers to a magnetic or gravitational field, and was mentioned in the first chapters of Northern Lights, when the scholars of the Oxford College of Lyra secretly discussed a mysterious phenomenon called Dust.

“In this last book, Lyra is about to discover what dust is and what it means, and the story explains how it goes,” the author told BBC Radio 4’s the World at One.

History also deals with the nature of the imagination, said the former English teacher of Oxford. “I have a view of what the imagination is, and Lyra discovers what she thinks that the imagination is, so we also talk about it.”

Beyond the world of dust and demonsThis book was influenced by real global events, including the rise of technological billionaires, revealed Pullman.

“It has become clear for me in the past 10 years that the influence of money and the power of the billionaire class, the power of technological industry and all these extractive things like oil and gas, etc., have a much deeper effect on the world than I had thought,” he said.

“And by thinking about it, and seeing the way the story has disappeared, and seeing what Lyra has to face and endure and decide, I thought about it deeper.

“The world has changed enormously. We are either at the end of a long period of American power, which will end, probably, like the end of any empire, in chaos, destructiveness, then the progressive gathering of nations in a new form. It will be interesting to look at, if I am always alive to look at it.

“But we are also at a time when we can look back, with Internet resources and so on … We are at an age when we have the wisdom of centuries and millennia.

Rose Field arrives six years after the publication of the previous book in the Book of Dust series.

The first two books in the trilogy have sold 49 million copies worldwide, said publisher Midas.

Pullman said he was now going to draw his attention to planning a brief, which would be entitled before I forget.

“I have been talking about writing a memory for a while before I forget everything, and this is something that may be on the horizon,” he said.

“I was born in 1946, I was raised as a child of the British Empire, who still existed. And I saw a very large number of changes, like everyone else.

“There is nothing remarkable on this subject, but I saw a lot of things that I liked, I appreciated, made me happy, made me excite in various ways. And I would like to remember and write them, because I think it’s a shame if they are not celebrated and recalled.”