An Evening with Eleanor Catton at Waterstones Nottingham

We are excited to welcome Eleanor Catton to Waterstones Nottingham to celebrate her latest novel, Birnam Wood!

Birnam Wood is on the move…

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.
Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker - or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?

Eleanor will talk about Birnam Wood before answering your questions and signing copies of her book.

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.

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Waterstones, 1-5 Bridlesmith Gate, Nottingham, United Kingdom