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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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  3. “The Luminaries,” Eleanor Catton’s remarkable second novel — the winner of this years Man Booker Prize — is a lot of things, and I mean a lot, but above all, perhaps, it is a love story,...

  4. 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 ...

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  5. The Luminaries is a 2020 drama television miniseries written by Eleanor Catton (based on her 2013 novel The Luminaries) and directed by Claire McCarthy. The series is centred on a young adventurer named Anna Wetherell , who has travelled from the United Kingdom to start a new life in New Zealand during the 1860s West Coast Gold Rush.

  6. Oct 15, 2013 · 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.

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  8. by Eleanor Catton (Author), Mark Meadows (Reader) 3.9 10,852 ratings. See all formats and editions. Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems….

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