After her Booker Prize-winning 2013 novel The Luminaries turned Eleanor Catton into a reluctant literary celebrity, she found refuge from the ensuing media attention in a surprising place: gardening ...
Neatness will kill a novel — throttle it and slowly snuff the life out of it. You know the markers: the quaintly named characters whose destinies match their monikers, the hammer-to-the-head ...
"A genius - and I don't say that lightly." Autumn de Wilde is effusing about Eleanor Catton. New Zealand's Man Booker Prize-winning author wrote the script for Emma, de Wilde's directorial debut and ...
At 832 pages, The Luminaries is a great book with which to festoon your bookcase. Given its fatness, it’s also a book that could be used to intimidate people. Fellow commuters on the Metro, you ...
Young Walter Moody arrives in a small town in New Zealand in the middle of the gold rush of 1866. Although he wants to seek his fortune, he would really prefer to forget his past. He is the unhappy ...
Women are few and far between in the midst of New Zealand's gold rush in 1866, the setting for Eleanor Catton’s BBC adaptation of her own bestseller, The Luminaries. As one character points out, there ...
Reading this year’s Booker winner, The Luminaries, is like reading many novels rolled into one — and for reasons beyond its ice-block thick, 800-page plus bulk: it is part Victorian novel, part ...
Creative influence can have a positive or a negative charge, either imitative ("I want to try that!") or defiant ("I want to see that done differently"). Both kinds of influence are vital for the ...
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