Charles Davis writes:
“The site of the most famous park bench in the universe will be revealed to an avid public on Thursday – an event to be trailed by the
flight of a “Zeppelin” airship over Oxford today.
The bench plays a central – and to the books’ millions of fans, heartbreaking – role in Philip Pullman’s trilogy, His Dark Materials, by
far the highest-selling children’s books after Harry Potter.
The air balloon, mocked up to resemble a first world war German Zeppelin bomber, will herald the publication of Lyra’s Oxford,
Pullman’s first book since his 1,000-page epic of war and adventure in heaven and earth.
The new volume, only 50 pages long, is set in the same alternative Oxford as the trilogy, a place where steam trains still run and
dawn Zeppelins fly travellers to London. And, for the first time in print, it includes a photograph of the bench, now almost as celebrated as Dr Who’s phone box
Full Story at
The Guardian“
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