Guardian interview with Philip Pullman. His long-awaited new novel La Belle Sauvage was launched last week. Personally, as a big fan of the wonderful His Dark Materials trilogy, I have mixed feelings about this new sequel series - the ending of the trilogy was just so perfect, so moving, so resonant that returning to Lyra's story seems redundant. But I shall be giving it a chance all the same, and hope to be pleasantly surprised.