One Book One Campus 2025

One Book One Campus is a reading event for all students and staff at Utrecht ľ�ϸ��Ӱ��. We read the same book and meet up at various events in October. In 2025, we will be reading Eleanor Catton's page-turning eco thriller “Birnam Wood”.

Join in on our events

This autumn, the ľ�ϸ��Ӱ�� Library – together with other UU partners - will organize various informative, experiential, and social events to explore the book’s themes, including the grand opening Night at the Library, on October 9. Here, you can mingle and join workshops, ted talks, music, presentations, a short film and more. See the full calendar and event details here.

About the book Birnam Wood

'Birnam Wood' is a page-turning eco-thriller about what happens when heartfelt principles meet obscene wealth. 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 billionaire drone manufacturer…

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E-books and audiobooks

It is not possible to order e-books and audiobooks via the order links. You can buy the .

Or would you rather listen to the book? English audiobooks are available on various (paid) platforms, for instance .

Birnam Wood in education

Lecturers are encouraged to incorporate ‘Birnam Wood’ into their autumn courses. The Library provides a readily accessible Resource Guide, offering background information and suggestions tailored to many disciplines. Join in – and explore this highly topical and gripping book in your education.

To the Resource Guide 'Birnam Wood'

About the author 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'.