Won the 2013 Booker Prize. Eleanor Catton’s fiendishly clever novel is both a ghost story and gripping mystery, it richly evokes a mid-19th century world of goldrush boom and bust.
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst was a Booker Prize judge in 2013 when Eleanor Catton won for 'The Luminaries'. He is Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Magdalen College.
His books include Becoming Dickens: The Invention of a Novelist, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland, which was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award. He is also the author of The Turning Point: A Year That Changed Dickens and the World. He writes regularly on books and film for the Times, Spectator, Guardian, and TLS; other essays and reviews have appeared in publications including the Daily Telegraph, Literary Review, Prospect, and Vogue. In the past he has worked as a consultant on BBC adaptations of Jane Eyre (2006), Emma (2009), and Great Expectations (2011); in 2015-16 he worked on the 20-part BBC1/Red Planet series ‘Dickensian’, and in 2019 he was an advisor on the hit Netflix feature film, Enola Holmes.
The 2013 Booker Prize shortlist
NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut novel is a bittersweet portrayal of life in a ramshackle Zimbabwean shantytown called Paradise.
In Jhumpa Lahiri’s sweeping drama, the deep bond between two brothers can do nothing to forestall the tragedy that will upend their lives.
Ruth Ozeki’s bewitching metafictional novel about our shared humanity and the search for home.
By Ruth Ozeki
Colm Tóibín presents a striking vision of the Virgin Mary as a mother wracked with grief, who is bitterly mourning the brutal death of her son.
By Colm Tóibín
Winner The Booker Prize 2013
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Won the 2013 Booker Prize. Eleanor Catton’s fiendishly clever novel is both a ghost story and gripping mystery, it richly evokes a mid-19th century world of goldrush boom and bust.
