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The Luminaries is a 2013 novel by Eleanor Catton. Set in New Zealand's South Island in 1866, the novel follows Walter Moody, a prospector who travels to the West Coast settlement of Hokitika to make his fortune on the goldfields.
Oct 15, 2013 · Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement.
Oct 15, 2013 · The Luminaries: A Novel (Man Booker Prize) Kindle Edition. by Eleanor Catton (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 4.0 11,301 ratings. Goodreads Choice Award nominee. See all formats and editions. The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.
Aug 24, 2013 · The Luminaries. Eleanor Catton. 3.75. 81,211 ratings9,487 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Historical Fiction (2013) It is 1866, and young Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields.
Oct 16, 2013 · “The Luminaries,” Eleanor Catton’s remarkable second novel — the winner of this year’s Man Booker Prize — is a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but above all, perhaps, it is a love...
Oct 7, 2014 · Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement. It richly confirms that Eleanor Catton is one of the brightest stars in the international literary firmament.
Oct 7, 2014 · Eleanor Catton was awarded the 2013 Man Booker Prize for The Luminaries. Her first novel, The Rehearsal, won the 2009 Betty Trask Award and the Adam Prize in Creative Writing, and was long-listed for the Orange Prize and short-listed for the Dylan Thomas Prize.
Aug 1, 2013 · The Luminaries. Written by Eleanor Catton. Won the 2013 Booker Prize. Eleanor Catton’s fiendishly clever novel is both a ghost story and gripping mystery, it richly evokes a mid-19th century world of goldrush boom and bust. It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields.
Mar 3, 2023 · Now an 821-page bestseller, a BBC-adapted mini-series, and one of Queen Elizabeth II’s chosen Commonwealth novels for 2022’s ‘Big Jubilee Read’ to boot, Catton’s second novel, The Luminaries, has been described in many ways: as a historical novel, a ghost story, a crime thriller, an intricately plotted character study, and a ...
Oct 7, 2014 · Richly evoking a mid-nineteenth-century world of shipping, banking, and gold rush boom and bust, The Luminaries is at once a fiendishly clever ghost story, a gripping page-turner, and a thrilling novelistic achievement.
