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Whether it's a suspicious-looking email or a multimillion-dollar global swindle

'I do not know of any other writer who has done as much with language

Richard Ferber

But she's about to turn thirty and - as her mother keeps reminding her - she won't have her pick of the men forever

The Luminaries book-new-arrivals-2026-07-17 but it's not the onlyIt is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has vanished, a prostitute has tried to end her life, and an enormous cache of gold has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into a network of fates and fortunes