Birnam Wood

FICTION £20.00 / £14.99 March Royal 234 × 153mm HB / Export TPB 432pp No Canada, NZ or Samoa rights Serial rights 978 1 78378 425 7 (HB) 978 1 78378 427 1 (Export TPB) It was over, she thought. She should leave. There was only one road out of Thorndike, which meant that he knew the direction she had taken; and even if he hadn’t seen her bicycle, he had certainly seen her pannier. He knew her alias, her business, her intentions – and he had known more than what she’d told him. He had known she hadn’t taken any pictures with her camera. He had known she’d been on the property four hours. And somehow, somehow, he had known her name.

Eleanor Catton

A MAJOR PUBLISHING EVENT. From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries, a gripping literary thriller and an unflinching examination of the human impulse to survive.

Birnam Wood is on the move...

A landslide has isolated the town of Thorndike on New Zealand’s South Island, leaving a sizeable farm abandoned, and presenting an opportunity for Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective. But they hadn’t figured on the enigmatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine, who also has an interest in the land. Can they trust him? And as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other? Shakespearean in its wit and flair, Birnam Wood is a brilliantly constructed tale of intentions, actions and consequences.

‘One of the finest writers of our time’ Independent

‘Catton [is] one of the brightest stars in the international writing firmament’ Bookseller

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eleanor catton is the Booker Prizewinning author of The Luminaries, which she adapted for television with the BBC, and The Rehearsal. She is also the screenwriter for Emma, a feature film adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel.

THE LUMINARIES

BPB £9.99 978 1 84708 432 3

THE REHEARSAL

BPB £8.99 978 1 84708 139 1