The bestselling, Man Booker Prize-winning novel hailed as "a true achievement. Catton has built a lively parody of a 19th-century novel, and in so doing created a novel for the 21st, something utterly new. The pages fly."--New York Times Book Review
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake[...]

Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize, a breathtaking feat of storytelling where everything is connected, but nothing is as it seems . It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of [...]

‘2009's most exciting new voice’

Guardian Review

A high-school sex scandal jolts a group of teenage girls into a new awareness of their own potency and power. But when the local drama school decides to turn the scandal into a show, the real world and the world of the[...]

The astonishing and epic novel that won the 2013 Man Booker Prize

It 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. [...]

Prisbelönt och hyllad debut

När det uppdagas att en flicka vid en high school haft ett förhållande med en medelålders lärare är skandalen ett faktum och händelsen får ödesdigra konsekvenser för både lärare, elever och föräldrar. Flera av eleverna tar regelbundna saxofonlek[...]