Climate Fiction So Earth-Shattering You’ll Never Forget to Recycle Again These dystopian books imagine a future where the worst has already happened. Marie Claire · Apr 22, 2025
The best new books released in March, as selected by avid readers and critics Short stories by Margaret Atwood, a thriller from a Booker Prize winner, and an interrogation of our cultural obsession with true crime are among our favourite new books. ABC News · Mar 31, 2023
Review: 'Birnam Wood,' by Eleanor Catton FICTION: A group of eco-guerrillas encounter a mysterious billionaire in this pre-pandemic literary thriller. Tribune News Service · Mar 15, 2023
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 · Mar 3, 2023
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. The Conversation · Mar 1, 2023
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 · Feb 26, 2023
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 · Feb 18, 2023