Birnam Wood

After a landslide blocks the Korowai Pass in New Zealand's South Island, the small town of Thorndike is isolated and a large farm stands empty. For a band of activists who secretly sow vegetables on land nobody is watching, this looks like a gift. Mira Bunting, the group's driving force, uses false names to scout the property, only to learn that it has been quietly bought by Robert Lemoine, an amoral American tech billionaire rumoured to have killed his wife. He offers to bankroll the group's occupation as a screen for his own hidden mining venture. As Mira is drawn into his schemes, the younger Shelley Noakes wrestles with her convictions, and Tony Gallo, an ex-member and aspiring journalist, comes back bearing a grudge, and every loyalty is put to the test.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

424 pages in the original

Genres

Crime, Politics, Nature (assigned by AI)

Set in

New Zealand

First published

2023 by Te Herenga Waka University Press

Author's age

38 when first published

ISBN

9781776920631 (Te Herenga Waka University Press, New Zealand)

9780374110338 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, United States)

9781783784257 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

9781776921409 (Te Herenga Waka University Press, New Zealand)

9781783784288 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)

9781250321718 (Picador, United States)

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