The Luminaries (Man Booker Prize winner 2013) Julia Parker Brown Book Group

Brown Book Group

The quest for the real Dilmun began when the author revisited Bahrain in order to explore the thousands of undated burial mounds scattered across the country

but she is still there

online shopping and text messaging mean that waiting has come to an end

I haven't felt this way since I first read Beloved

The Luminaries (Man Booker Prize winner 2013) Julia Parker Brown Book GroupIt is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a whore has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex