EAN: 9781783784288

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NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023 FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023 FROM THE WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared unregulated sometimes-criminal sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice on the sides of roads in forgotten parks and neglected backyards. For years the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine the enigmatic American billionaire has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker - or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira Birnam Wood and their entrepreneurial spirit he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And as their ideals and ideologies are tested can they trust each other? A gripping psychological thriller from the Booker Prize-winning author of The Luminaries Birnam Wood is Shakespearean in its wit drama and immersion in character. A brilliantly constructed consideration of intentions actions and consequences it is an unflinching examination of the human impulse to ensure our own survival.

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