Birnam Wood (novel)

Birnam Wood
First hardcover edition
AuthorEleanor Catton
Cover artistJon Gray (aka gray318)
LanguageEnglish
PublisherTe Herenga Waka University Press (NZ)
Granta Books (UK)
FSG (US)
Publication date
February 2023 (NZ)
28 February 2023 (INTL)
Publication placeNew Zealand
Media type
  • Print
  • e-book
Pages432 pp.
ISBN978-1-77692-063-1
OCLC1376194338

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.

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.