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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.
Catton's third novel, Birnam Wood, was published in February 2023. The title is taken from Macbeth, and Catton has said the novel draws inspiration from the play. [25] It is a contemporary thriller about a group of young climate activists who call themselves Birnam Wood. [26] The novel was shortlisted for the 2023 Giller Prize.
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'Birnam Wood,' the third novel by Eleanor Catton, trades in the sprawl of 'The Luminaries,' which won the Booker Prize, for a thriller that's far too neat.
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Birnam Wood is a town in Scotland. Birnam Wood or Birnamwood may also refer to: ... Birnam Wood, a novel by Eleanor Catton; See also. Birnam Oak, ...
J. R. R. Tolkien, a philologist and medievalist as well as a fantasy author, recorded that he disliked William Shakespeare's work. [1] In a letter, he wrote of his "bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays of the shabby use made in Shakespeare [in Macbeth] of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill'".
On 15 October, the chair of the judges Robert Macfarlane announced that the winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize was New Zealand author Eleanor Catton for her second novel The Luminaries. [6] By winning, Catton became, at the age of 28, the youngest author ever to win the Booker. [ 6 ]