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Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – hippies v billionaires

In her third novel, the Booker winner captures our collective despair about an unequal world in a finely spun web of misunderstandings

The Guardian - UK

This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

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Ambition, corruption and guerilla gardening: Eleanor Catton's Birnam Wood is a horror story for our time

Almost every review to date mentions the brutal argument that closes the first section of Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood. In a novel filled with incident – disasters, chases, one very bad acid trip, general maleficence – it is telling that this scene lingers.

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Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – the root of all evil

The Booker-winner’s dark and brilliant tale of a gardening collective’s clash with a billionaire explodes the notion of caring capitalism

The Guardian - UK

Eleanor Catton: ‘I felt so much doubt after winning the Booker’

In 2013, at 28, Eleanor Catton became the youngest ever Booker winner with The Luminaries. She talks about adapting the novel for screen, being shut out of her native New Zealand and why it has taken 10 years to write a follow-up

The Guardian - UK

This week's bestselling books

The latest Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list, described by Steve Braunias

Newsroom.co.nz

Last week's bestsellers

We usually run the Nielsen BookScan New Zealand bestseller list on Fridays but replaced it with a review of Birnam Wood

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Eleanor Catton: 'Power, class, and money'

Our fourth and final review of Birnam Wood

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Eleanor Catton: 'ferocious and analytical'

Our third Catton review

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Eleanor Catton: 'fast, thrilling, insane'

Our second Catton review

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Eleanor Catton, by Rachael King

The new Catton: "a great book"

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Bookstores hanging in

After last week's shock news by Vic Books, Steve Braunias pens a progress report on booksellers

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The House of Catton

Book reviews, award-winning essays, author interviews and more - dig into the best of New Zealand writing at ReadingRoom literary editor Steve Braunias.

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The best books to read in 2023, from Prince Harry’s memoir to Zadie Smith’s new novel

Get ready to race through some thrilling books in 2023, with heavily anticipated memoirs and new releases from big-name novelists. Jessie Thompson picks some of the most exciting upcoming reads

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