The Luminaries
The Luminaries - A right pair: shoes fit for a lead role
Christchurch based Flora Knight is a shoe maker whose boots are getting a run on Eleanor Catton's sunday night TV ONE adaptation of her Booker Prize-winning The Luminaries. The costume team gave Flora… Audio, Gallery
The Luminaries, The Great, The Vast of Night
Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at the TVNZ-BBC production of Eleanor Catton's award-winning novel The Luminaries, a hilarious new look at Catherine the Great from the co-writer of The… Audio
'I think it's going to look very beautiful onscreen'
Novelist-turned-screenwriter Eleanor Catton has been at work adapting her Man Booker Prize winning novel The Luminaries for the small screen. A six-part TV miniseries is due to start shooting in 2017… Audio
Francis Spufford: the 18th century novel
Francis Spufford is a British writer whose books include The Child That Books Built (2002), Red Plenty (2010) and Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising… Audio
Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes
Stevan Eldred-Grigg, whose book Diggers, Hatters and Whores: The Story of the New Zealand Gold Rushes is being re-released after Eleanor Catton acknowledged it as a major source of inspiration for The… Audio
Max Porter: editing and publishing
Editor at Granta Books whose first publishing project was The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton. Audio