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Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton

A Novel

★ 4.2 (12 Ratings) ◷ 20 Minutes ☰ 3 Sections ◉ Text + audio

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Birnam Wood (2023) is an engrossing thriller about what happens when a group of idealistic activists cross paths with the wrong venture capitalist. What looks like an amazing opportunity soon turns into a deadly nightmare, full of lies, cover-ups, and dangerous bedfellows.

About the author

Eleanor Catton is an author and screenwriter from New Zealand who won the prestigious Booker Prize with her 2013 novel The Luminaries. She was also a writer and showrunner for the BBC television series based on that novel, and the screenwriter behind Emma, the 2020 movie adaptation of the classic Jane Austen novel.