eBook Club pick: Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

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Welcome to the WCL eBook Club, where each month we highlight a popular eBook in our digital collection and give access to an unlimited number of downloads on Libby. That means no waiting in long reserves queues- you’ll get instant access to our monthly popular pick!

From September 1st till September 14th, our eBook Club title is the international bestselling sensation everyone is talking about Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.

Birnam Wood was one of the most hotly anticipated novels of 2023, both here and overseas. It was released to rave reviews; the Guardian described it as “a dark and brilliant novel about the violence and tawdriness of late capitalism”. Inspired in part by Birnam Wood in Shakespeare’s play Macbeth, one of the key subjects in the book is the battle to save a guerrilla community garden project in Christchurch called Birnam Wood.

This stunning novel was only released a few months ago and has dominated the fiction best-seller lists ever since. Birnam Wood has already featured heavily on many of the hot, must-read lists for the year.

We decided that the demand for Birnam Wood was such that we had to make it our September eBook club title pick.

About Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton is one of our most celebrated and acclaimed living New Zealand authors.

As a young teenager she made zombie movies with her friends. Her debut novel The Rehearsal won the 2009 Betty Trask Award, was longlisted for the Orange Prize and made the shortlist of the Guardian First Book Award.

She won the 2013 Man Booker Prize for her second novel, The Luminaries. She is the award’s youngest ever winner. Catton also wrote the screenplay for The Luminaries when it was adapted into a television miniseries.

Join us in reading this much anticipated novel on the Libby app, as we offer unlimited downloads in September of the fabulous Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.