Warning: this is a spoiler heavy episode! We will be speaking about The Secret Commonwealth (before we’ve read it!), so expect spoilers for His Dark Materials, La Belle Sauvage and some information from The Secret Commonwealth as part of press releases (I.e. excerpts published, summaries of the plot)

In this bonus episode recorded before we have read The Secret Commonwealth, we review what we know about the book so far from press releases, what we're looking forward to and what we're nervous about. We also make some highly accurate (probably not) predictions about what we think might happen!

Iain and Amy discuss mystical girl scouts, the musical adaptation we're all hoping for and the 'death' of a 17th century Scottish minister.

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Join the discussion and give us your theories, hopes and fears! You can add your thoughts on this subreddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/hisdarkmaterials/comments/d9wqoh/hopes_fears_predictions_for_the_secret/

The excerpts from The Secret Commonwealth can be found on

The Waterstones blog (opening section): https://www.waterstones.com/blog/a-sneak-peak-at-the-the-secret-commonwealth-the-book-of-dust-volume-two?utm_source=WS_BookOfDustSecretCommonwealthExtract&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=september2019twitter

The Guardian website: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/10/philip-pullman-secret-commonwealth-extract-book-of-dust

More about The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns and Fairies (by Robert Kirk) can be found here: https://www.heraldscotland.com/arts_ents/17716888.book-review-the-secret-commonwealth-of-elves-fauns-and-fairies-by-robert-kirk/

We briefly talk about Will o' the Wisps. You can find out more about them here, or watch out for them in upcoming episodes!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will-o%27-the-wisp

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Music by: Jaymen Persaud

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