About this Event
Join us for a fascinating evening with Booker Prize-winning author Eleanor Catton where she will be discussing her latest book, 'Birnam Wood'. A dazzling psychological thriller about a guerrilla gardening group and their compromised existence.
About the Book
Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike.
About the Author
In 2013, Eleanor Catton became the youngest winner of the Man Booker Prize with her second novel The Luminaries, and following the publication of her third book, Birnam Wood, she was named as one of the Granta Best of Young British Novelists.
Reviews
Birnam Wood is terrific. As a multilayered, character-driven thriller, it's as good as it gets. Ruth Rendell would have loved it. A beautifully textured work-- what a treat - Stephen King
Phenomenal and utterly gripping, Birnam Wood has the sense of a literary writer setting herself free and having a bit of fun. It's fantastic. I loved it. - Jessie Burton
What I admired most in Birnam Wood was the way that the rapid violence of the climax rises, all of it, out of the deep, patient, infinitely nuanced character-work that comes before. If George Eliot had written a thriller, it might have been a bit like this - Francis Spufford
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Waterstones, 24-26 High Street, Birmingham, United Kingdom
GBP 4.00 to GBP 5.00
