Eleanor Catton
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
The winner of the Man Booker Prize, this "expertly written, perfectly constructed" bestseller (The Guardian) is now a Starz miniseries.
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has...
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series of unexplained events: a wealthy man has...
2) Birnam Wood
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The founder of Birnam Wood, a guerilla gardening group that plants crops where no one will notice fights an enigmatic billionaire over the farmland.