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The luminaries / Eleanor Catton.
A bold neo-Victorian murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. In 1866, a weary Englishman lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On 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, events in which each man finds himself implicated in some way.
Record details
- ISBN: 0771023243 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780771023248 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 832 p. : ill.
- Edition: Emblem ed.
- Publisher: [Toronto] : Emblem, 2014, c2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Map on P. [2] of cover. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 24.95 |
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| Subject: | British > New Zealand > Fiction. Small cities > New Zealand > Fiction. Gold mines and mining > New Zealand > Fiction. Murder > Fiction. Missing persons > Fiction. Astrology > Fiction. New Zealand > History > 1853-1876 > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Suspense fiction. Occult fiction. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cookstown Branch | FIC Catto | 31681002516342 | FICTION | Available | - |
ELEANOR CATTON is the author of the international bestseller The Luminaries, winner of the Booker Prize and the Governor Generalâs Literary Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal, won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, the Betty Trask Award, and the NZ Society of Authorsâ Best First Book Award, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Writers Prize, and longlisted for the Orange Prize. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austenâs Emma for feature film. Born in 1985 in London, Ontario, and raised in New Zealand, she now lives in Cambridge, England.
