The Luminaries / Eleanor Catton.
Publisher: London : Granta, 2013Description: 832 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- still image
- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781847088765
- 1847088767
- Gold mines and mining -- New Zealand -- History -- 1853-1876 -- Fiction
- Murder -- Fiction
- Crime stories
- Mystery and suspense stories
- New Zealand - History - 1840-1907 - Fiction
- West Coast Region (N.Z.) - History - Fiction
- Historical fiction
- New Zealand stories
- New Zealand - Gold discoveries - Fiction
- Gold mining - New Zealand - Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Crime -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, New Zealander
- Historical fiction, New Zealander
- Crime fiction
- Mystery -- Fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Prostitutes -- Fiction
- Trials (Murder) -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- Trials - Fiction
- Prostitution - Fiction
- Prostitution -- Fiction
- Trials -- Fiction
- Gold mines and mining -- New Zealand -- Fiction
- Trials
- New Zealand -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- History -- 1853-1876 -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- History -- 1853-1876
- New Zealand
- New Zealand -- Gold discoveries -- Fiction
- West Coast (N.Z.) -- Fiction
- New Zealand -- West Coast
- New Zealand -- History -- 1853-1876 -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Mystery fiction
- Mystery fiction.
- Historical fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Historical fiction.
- Detective and mystery fiction
- Historical fiction
- Detective and mystery stories
- Detective and mystery stories
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction
- Historical fiction.
- Fiction.
- History.
- Historical.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Novels.
- Mystery fiction.
- Historical.
- Detective and mystery fiction.
- Novels.
- 823.3 23
- Booker Prize, 2013.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Jessie Street National Women's Library General Stacks | 823.3 CAT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available for reference in the library and ILL | 90282 |
Originally published: 2013.
A sphere within a sphere -- Auguries -- The house of self-undoing -- Paenga-wha-wha -- Weight and lucre -- The widow and the weeds -- Domicile -- The truth about Aurora -- Mutable Earth -- Matters of succession -- Orion sets when Scorpio rises -- The old moon in the young moon's arms.
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the night of his 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. The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction, which more than fulfils the promise of The Rehearsal. Like that novel, it is full of narrative, linguistic and psychological pleasures, and has a fiendishly clever and original structuring device. Written in pitch-perfect historical register, richly evoking a mid-19th century world of shipping and banking and goldrush boom and bust, it is also a ghost story, and a gripping mystery.
Booker Prize, 2013.
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