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Growing up is hard to do: Philip Pullman’s The Secret Commonwealth, reviewed

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Dr Susan Wardell, a His Dark Materials fan who grew up to be a social anthropologist, reviews the much-anticipated sort-of sequel, The Secret Commonwealth. Is the world fundamentally dead, or alive? Philip Pullman asks in this new book, a thinly-veiled philosophical interrogation of “progressive thinking”.   The book is rich in both human and political intrigue, … Read more