ELEANOR CATTON
November 2013
Perhaps the Booker judges awarded Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries the prize to ensure that their getting through all 836 exhausting pages of her frustrating novel wasn’t in vain
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November 2013
‘Why not televise a Plumbing Booker — recognising the rare tradesman who puts in shower stalls that don’t leak?’
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