Birnam Wood

Electrifying! Taking its name from "Hamlet", this Shakespearean piece from Eleanor Catton follows Mira Bunting and her guerilla gardening collective, Birnam Wood, as they become increasingly entangled with charismatic American billionaire Robert Lemoine. Both parties are interested in a remote rural site near a national park in New Zealand, but their motives may not be entirely as they seem... A sharp take on climate change and the capitalist agenda, Catton's writing manages to achieve both density and fluidity, and her plot twists will leave you reeling - I raced through this one.