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Birnam Wood

By Eleanor Catton
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Birnam Wood is on the move... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants... Read More
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Birnam Wood is on the move ... A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice.

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Birnam Wood is on the move...

A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass in the South Island of New Zealand, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. This land offers an opportunity to Birnam Wood, a guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever no one will notice.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781776920648

Publisher: Te Herenga Waka University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 09 February 2023

Country: New Zealand

Imprint: Te Herenga Waka University Press

Audience: General / adult

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Weight: 250g

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About the Author

ELEANOR CATTON is the author of The Luminaries (2013), winner of the Booker Prize, the Canadian Governor Generalโ€™s Literary Award, and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. Her debut novel, The Rehearsal (2009), won the New Zealand Best First Book of Fiction Award and the Betty Trask Prize, and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize and longlisted for the Orange Prize. As a screenwriter, she adapted The Luminaries for television, and Jane Austenโ€™s Emma for feature film. Born in 1985 in Canada and raised in New Zealand, she lives in Britain.

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