- Title:
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The Luminaries
- Written by:
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Eleanor Catton
- Read by:
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Mark Meadows
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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25
- Duration:
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29 hours 18 minutes
- Published:
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July 01 2014
- Available Date:
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July 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486220328
- Genres:
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Fiction; Crime & Thriller; Detective; Historical Fiction; Mystery
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Audible audio
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Format
Price
Bolinda price
International bestseller
Award winning author
Man Booker Prize-winning author
Selected Big Jubilee Read 2022
Winner Australian Book Industry Award / International Book of the Year 2014
Winner The Man Booker Prize 2013
Longlisted BAILEYS Women’s Prize for Fiction 2014
‘Addictive [and] very clever.’
The Times
‘A breathtakingly ambitious mystery ... Catton's playful and increasingly virtuosic denouement arrives at a conclusion that is as beautiful as it is triumphant.’
The Daily Mail
‘A dream novel: stellar in every way.’
The Economist
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems.
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.
'A book to curl up with and devour, intricately plotted and extravagantly described, a pastiche of the Victorian sensation novel in the same smart yet playful vein as Sarah Waters.'
The Guardian
‘An immense feat of structuring and plotting which means that this novel starts as a gentle stroll and ends with the exhilarating sense of running downhill ... Ambitious, intricate, spectacular.’
The Independent