Eleanor Catton

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1) Birnam Wood

Author

Catton, Eleanor

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

Description

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"The Booker-winning author of The Luminaries delivers a gripping thriller of high drama and kaleidoscopic insight into what drives us to survive"-- 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....

2) The luminaries: a novel

Author

Catton, Eleanor

Series

Book club kit

Publisher

Little, Brown

Pub. Date

2013.

Language

English

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This novel is a murder mystery set in a remote gold-mining frontier town in 19th-century New Zealand. Arriving in New Zealand in 1866 a weary Englishman, Walter Moody, lands in a gold-mining frontier town on the coast of New Zealand to make his fortune and forever leave behind his family's shame. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men who have met in secret to investigate what links three crimes that occurred on a single...