“The Luminaries” seemed to have everything Hollywood wants in a book. A commercial and critical hit when it was published in 2013, Eleanor Catton’s immersive novel was set on the rugged southwest ...

Jarvis Cocker from English alternative rock band Pulp - musician, author, radio DJ and now exhibition narrator With the London Book Fair taking place from March 14-16, a number of major book deals ...

Awards dominate today's book news, with the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize announced Tuesday night and the National Book Award finalists revealed this morning. Below, more of today's top ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

ELEANOR CATTON reading as a Governor General’s Award finalist on Monday (October 28), 8 pm, at the Fleck Dance Theatre reading Tuesday (October 29), 8 pm, Lakeside Terrace in conversation with Rupert ...

Youth and heft triumphed at Britain’s Booker Prize on Tuesday, as 28-year-old New Zealander Eleanor Catton won the fiction award for “The Luminaries,” an ambitious 832-page murder mystery set during a ...

This post has been updated. Please see note at bottom for details. Eleanor Catton took the 2013 Man Booker Prize for “The Luminaries” at an awards ceremony in London on Tuesday night. At age 28, ...

Eleanor Catton is among the five North American authors shortlisted for the second iteration of the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction. The $150,000 USD ($203,971.50 Cdn) prize recognizes the best ...

New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton has made history as the youngest ever winner of the Man Booker Prize, the most prestigious literary prize in the Commonwealth, with her second novel, “The Luminaries.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When 28-year-old Eleanor Catton became the youngest person to win Britain’s Man Booker Prize this month, she acknowledged that “The Luminaries” was a ...