Bookwarm Games

or, "it feels as if the whole city’s looking out for us…" The first in a series of discussions of the companion books, the little books published between His Dark Materials and The Book of Dust, beginning with Lyra's Oxford. With continual reference to His Dark Materials and (spoilers) The Book of Dust. An example of a Baedecker on Bohemia: https://aba.org.uk/assets/catalogues/rarebooks@shapero.com/Baedeker2020.pdf On Bohemia and its non-existent coastline in Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale: https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/bohemia-winters-tale-seacoast/ (and almost all Pullman's stories are very much winters' tales, aren't they...)The article in the Guardian cribbed from for the epigraph: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2002/jul/27/booksforchildrenandteenagers.philippullman Interview with Margaret Kean: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/philip-pullman-lyras-oxford-bodleian-library-masterclass Unveiling the gargoyles: https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/gargoyles-unveiled-0