Birnam Wood (novel)

Birnam Wood
First hardcover edition
AuthorEleanor Catton
Cover artistJon Gray (aka gray318)
LanguageEnglish
Published2023 (2023) Te Herenga Waka University Press (New Zealand), Granta Books (UK), Farrar, Straus and Giroux (North America)
Publication placeNew Zealand
Media type
  • Print
  • e-book
Pages432 pp.
ISBN978-1-77692-063-1
OCLC1376194338

Birnam Wood is the third novel by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton. Published in February 2023, the novel follows members of guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as, with the help of a charismatic tech billionaire, they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland.

Like her previous novel The Luminaries, the book is set in a fictionalised New Zealand, primarily in and around a national park in the South Canterbury region. The title is taken from a line in Macbeth.[1]

  1. ^ Garner, Dwight (13 March 2023). "Guerrilla Gardeners Meet Billionaire Doomsayer. Hurly-Burly Ensues.". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 January 2024. Retrieved 20 January 2024.