Birnam Wood is on the move... Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening group: Birnam Wood. An undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic gathering of friends, this activist collective plants crops wherever no one will notice, on the sides of roads, in forgotten parks, and neglected backyards. For years, the group has struggled to break even. Then Mira stumbles on an answer, a way to finally set the group up for the long term: a landslide has closed the Korowai Pass, cutting off the town of Thorndike. Natural disaster has created an opportunity, a sizable farm seemingly abandoned. But Mira is not the only one interested in Thorndike. Robert Lemoine, the enigmatic American billionaire, has snatched it up to build his end-times bunker - or so he tells Mira when he catches her on the property. Intrigued by Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he suggests they work this land. But can they trust him? And, as their ideals and ideologies are tested, can they trust each other?
Tag: Impossible Creatures
Top Ten Tuesday: Books On My Winter 2023-2024 To-Read List
Some of you may have noticed that I have missed a couple of Top Ten Tuesday posts recently - which is unusual for me - and also that I've become very much behind in my reviews - which is distinctly not unusual by this point in the year! Things had got a little on top of me recently, I have to say - my father's illness, my daughter's needs, my own health (a burst ear drum, minor in the big picture!) And then an Ofsted Inspection on top of everything else, with mock exam marking... But, I am back and let's return to the books with the regular seasonal tbr update. As always, please bear in mind that I never really have a to-be read list, nor do I really plan my reading at all. I am - as I have said before - totally a mood reader. But, at the moment these are the books that I might get around to reading over the winter. Let's start with my current read: the gentle, familiar milieu of Sophie Hannah's Poirot in a Christmas setting, and the final parts of the Children of Blood and Bone...



You must be logged in to post a comment.