BIRNAM WOOD

Birnam Wood is on the move...

A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice. But they hadn’t figured on the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine, who also has an interest in the place. Can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?

A gripping thriller from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Luminaries, Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit, drama and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions and consequences, it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

Shortlisted for the 2024 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction, Ockham New Zealand Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Shortlisted for the Nero Book Awards
Finalist for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction

ISBN: 9781776921409
Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press
Publication Date: 23 May 2024
Dimensions: 129mm x 198mm
Weight: 420g
No. Of Pages: 432