Serpentine by Philip Pullman – Olivia Colman reads an exclusive extract

In this extract from Serpentine, Philip Pullman’s latest tale from the His Dark Materials universe, Lyra and her daemon Pantalaimon return to Trollesund, where they first met their friends Iorek Byrnison and Lee Scoresby so many years before.

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• Serpentine, illustrated by Tom Duxbury, will be published by Penguin Random House Children’s on 15 October. To order a copy of the book, go to guardianbookshop.com. Delivery charges may apply. The audiobook, read by Olivia Colman, will be released the same day as a download or CD.