All-purpose | Everything Else

The Luminaries

by Eleanor Catton

2020-12-29 11:05:59

Compare Price
Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. It is 1866... Read more

Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. 

It is 1866 and young Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand''s booming gold rush,  make his fortune, and forever leave behind a family scandal. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single day: the town’s wealthiest man has vanished, a prositute has tried to end her life, and enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk.  Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely ornate as the night sky.

Part mystery, part fantastical love story, The Luminaries weaves together the changing fates and fortunes of an entire community, one where everyone has something to hide. Rich with character and event, it is a gripping page-turner and a fiendishly clever ghost story in which readers will gladly lose themselves. It confirms Eleanor Catton’s reputation as one of the most exciting and innovative novelists writing today.

Less

Book Details

File size8.99 X 6.03 X 1.48 in
Print pages848
PublisherMcClelland & Stewart
Publication date September 5, 2013
Languageeng
ISBN9781847085931
autor-image
Eleanor Catton
Author
Eleanor Catton MNZM (born 24 September 1985) is a New Zealand novelist and screenwriter. She is related to author Bruce Catton. Catton's debut novel, The Rehearsal, was published in 2008. It was writt...

Compare Prices

Store Availability Book Format Condition Price
eBooks.com In Stock Buy GBP 9.99
BetterWorld.com - New, Used, Rare Books & Textbooks In Stock Buy USD 4.84
Indigo Books & Music In Stock Paperback Paperback Buy CAD 24.95
eBooks.comIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy GBP 9.99
BetterWorld.com - New, Used, Rare Books & TextbooksIn Stock
Format
Condition
Buy USD 4.84
Indigo Books & MusicIn Stock
Format
Paperback
Condition
Paperback
Buy CAD 24.95
Available Discount
No Discount available

Related Books

View All
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Row, Row, Row Your Boat (Indestructibles Series)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
House of Shadows: An Enthralling Historical Mystery
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Feed Your Best Friend Better: Easy, Nutritious Meals and Treats for Dogs
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson's Journal
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Clean & Lean: 30 Days, 30 Foods, a New You!
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
The Wonderful Things You Will Be
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
You Be You: Detox Your Life, Crush Your Limitations, and Own Your Awesome
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Chick!
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Life Will Be the Death of Me: ...And You Too!
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
The Silent Woman (Cat Carlisle, Book 1)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star (Indestructibles Series)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
The Book Club
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
We Are Not Friends (You Are Not Small)
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Falter: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Made for Me
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Going to School
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Can't Make This Stuff Up!: Finding the Upside to Life's Downs
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Hurricane Season
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
The Secret Wife: A captivating story of romance, passion and mystery
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
The Pout-Pout Fish
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Secrets Between Us: An absolutely gripping psychological thriller
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
${ornaments[Math.floor(Math.random()*ornaments.length)]}
Good Night, Little Blue Truck
☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆

Join us and get access to all
your favourite books

Sign up for free and start exploring thousands of eBooks today.

Sign up for free

Stay in touch.

© 2026 AMPLE READS