City of Magpies
@cityofmagpies.bsky.social
International news about #HisDarkMaterials, Philip Pullman's books and related adaptations.
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Dæmon-account to https://www.cittagazze.com & https://www.bridgetothestars.net
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🇬🇧 Welcome!
New to #HisDarkMaterials?
Here are some key-facts about the books, their adaptations and more:
cittagazze.com/decouverte_e...
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🇫🇷 Bienvenue !
Néophite sur #ALaCroiséeDesMondes ?
Voici quelques infos de base sur les livres, leurs adaptations et plus encore :
cittagazze.com/decouverte.php
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New to #HisDarkMaterials?
Here are some key-facts about the books, their adaptations and more:
cittagazze.com/decouverte_e...
🧭
🇫🇷 Bienvenue !
Néophite sur #ALaCroiséeDesMondes ?
Voici quelques infos de base sur les livres, leurs adaptations et plus encore :
cittagazze.com/decouverte.php
🧭
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.
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.
January 13, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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.
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,
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,
January 2, 2026 at 4:54 PM
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,
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.
Covers for Philip Pullman's books released in 2025.
Artists identified as Christopher Wormell, Peter Bailey, Rovina Cai, Jeff Miller and Hwang Bu-yong.
December 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Covers for Philip Pullman's books released in 2025.
Artists identified as Christopher Wormell, Peter Bailey, Rovina Cai, Jeff Miller and Hwang Bu-yong.
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...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
‘I’m alive, but battered’: Philip Pullman’s new novel was a struggle
After 30 years and two trilogies, Pullman reflects on the world of His Dark Materials.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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...
www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...
Worth a read!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
Truth in fantasy: what Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials taught us over its 30-year run
The ‘religious atheist’ author held a reputation as CS Lewis’s opposite. But his two trilogies – which came to a close this year – were a celebration of humanity and imagination
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Worth a read!
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...
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)
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)
December 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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)
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!
May it bring happy moments with family & friends and Dust storm all around.
Enjoy the day!
December 25, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Merry Christmas to all of you celebrating it.🎄
May it bring happy moments with family & friends and Dust storm all around.
Enjoy the day!
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...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/312002...
The Rose Field: The Book of Dust Volume Three
www.penguin.co.uk
December 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
💿The physical, CD edition of Philip Pullman's #TheRoseField audiobook will be published on April 30, 2026.
www.penguin.co.uk/books/312002...
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...
events.bl.uk/events/haunt...
Haunted Woods and Grimm Tales: Philip Pullman and Sam Leith | British Library
Philip Pullman is a master of magical worlds, and his own magnificent stories are loved and appreciated by people of all ages, just as the best fairy tales
events.bl.uk
November 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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...
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.
November 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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)
"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)
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman: An exquisite pleasure
The Rose Field by Philip Pullman: An exquisite pleasure
Skilful storytelling, surprising twists and daring exploits abound in this immersive, vividly rendered universe
www.irishtimes.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 AM
(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)
"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...
⚠️SPOILERS: avoid this article unless you've already completed your read!
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Philip Pullman’s The Rose Field: a manifesto for how to be human | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 8, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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...
⚠️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
youtu.be/MIvtP5fFvVo
From Myth to Fantasy: Where Folklore Ends & Imagination Begins | Interview with Prof. Kristen Poole
YouTube video by Whispers of Ilire
youtu.be
November 3, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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
youtu.be/MIvtP5fFvVo
Reposted by City of Magpies
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
Read more: https://ow.ly/BvFs50XlFC6
#ExeterCollegeOxford
November 3, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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
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.
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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)
By Sarah Lyall
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/b...
(⚠️Slight spoilers)
Philip Pullman Brings Lyra’s Story to a Close
www.nytimes.com
November 2, 2025 at 8:47 AM
'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)
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.
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.
November 1, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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.
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
⚠️Some slight spoilers in the course of the discussion.
youtu.be/MOk_669jUQM
Philip Pullman: The Waterstones Interview
YouTube video by Waterstones
youtu.be
November 1, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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
⚠️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.
Very fine with me.
As long as you let me read The Rose Field.
a young boy is reading a book in a dark room with lit candles
Alt: Bastian Balthazar Bux from THE NEVERENDING STORY meticulously lits candles while lying on the floor and start reading a book in a dark room
media.tenor.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Halloween?
Very fine with me.
As long as you let me read The Rose Field.
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.
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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...
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...
October 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
🇩🇪 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...
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.
We'll read for them, too.
October 27, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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.
We'll read for them, too.
🥹 And now the final part begins...
#EnjoyYourRead
#EnjoyYourRead
a young boy is reading a book in a darkened room
Alt: The Neverending Story's Bastian Balthazar Bux holds a big book in a darkened attic, smiles, and finally opens it to READ it!
media.tenor.com
October 27, 2025 at 7:14 PM
🥹 And now the final part begins...
#EnjoyYourRead
#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.
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.
October 25, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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.
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!🐻❄️)
(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)?
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)?
October 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
@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!🐻❄️)
(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!🐻❄️)