Walter Moody arrives in New Zealand seeking fortune in the goldfields. Instead, he walks into a secret meeting of twelve strangers and a mystery too intricate to ignore.
A vanished millionaire. A ruined prostitute. A drunken man with gold he shouldn’t have. What connects them is unclear, but Moody is pulled into a labyrinth of suspicion, ambition, and fate.
Set against the opulence and grit of the 1866 gold rush, The Luminaries unfolds like a puzzle box. Every chapter, every character, every celestial metaphor reveals another layer.
Winner of the Man Booker Prize and adapted into a Starz miniseries, Eleanor Catton’s masterpiece is a historical epic, a ghost story, and a literary feat rolled into one.
Nothing in this town is accidental. And everyone has something to hide.
