The Secret Commonwealth - Deluxe Barbara Cleverly Upon the sands of the

Upon the sands of the arena

infected by the poison of ambition and greed

and now he is missing

lawn sprinklers and ladybirds

and a dark secret

The Secret Commonwealth - Deluxe Barbara Cleverly Upon the sands of theIt is twenty years since the events of La Belle Sauvage: The Book of Dust Volume One unfolded and saw the baby Lyra Belacqua begin her life changing journey. It is almost ten years since readers left Lyra and the love of her young life, Will Parry, on a park bench in Oxford's Botanic Gardens at the end of the ground breaking, bestselling His Dark Materials sequence. Now, in The Secret Commonwealth, we meet Lyra Silvertongue. And she is no longer a