Birnam Wood (novel)

Birnam Wood is the third novel by New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton. Published in February 2023, the novel follows members of guerilla gardening collective Birnam Wood as, with the help of a charismatic tech billionaire, they undertake a new project on abandoned farmland.

Birnam Wood
First hardcover edition
AuthorEleanor Catton
Cover artistJon Gray (aka gray318)
CountryNew Zealand
LanguageEnglish
Published2023 (2023) Te Herenga Waka University Press (New Zealand), Granta Books (UK), Farrar, Straus and Giroux (North America)
Media type
  • Print
  • e-book
Pages432 pp.
ISBN978-1-77692-063-1
OCLC1376194338

Like her previous novel The Luminaries, the book is set in a fictionalised New Zealand, primarily in and around a national park in the South Canterbury region. The title is taken from a line in Macbeth.

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