A true thriller for students and staff
​This year, One Book One Campus reads ‘Birnam Wood’ by Booker Prize winner Eleanor Catton
'Birnam Wood' is a page-turning eco-thriller about what happens when heartfelt principles meet obscene wealth. Read the novel this summer, join the conversation this autumn.
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About the book
Meet Mira Bunting who, together with her friends, has set up an activist gardening collective: Birnam Wood. They are struggling financially, but that changes when Mira meets a mysterious American multimillionaire.
They talk the way real people talk, but they’re freer, ruder, funnier.
About Eleanor Catton
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand author. In 2013, at the age of 28, she became the youngest author ever to win the Booker Prize. She received the prize for her second novel' The Luminaries'.
Events in the autumn
and be the first to receive an invitation for the One Book One Campus events in the autumn.
One Book One Campus
One Book One Campus is a recurring reading event for all Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ staff and students. You all read the same book, meet other readers and share your experiences. Reading pleasure and encounters are key.
The book choice is in line with the Utrecht ľ¹Ï¸£ÀûÓ°ÊÓ year theme of 2025: Healthy Planet.