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Digital Book Club: April 2025

This month’s Digital Book Club title is Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton.

5 years ago, Mira Bunting started a guerrilla gardening group called Birnam Wood. This informal, unregulated, and sometimes illegal but often charitable group of friends plants crops in unnoticed places like roadsides, forgotten parks, and neglected back gardens. When a mysterious American billionaire shows interest in Mira, Birnam Wood, and their entrepreneurial spirit, he proposes they work on his land together. But can they trust him? And as their beliefs and values are challenged, can they trust each other

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Previous titles

March 2025 - A History of Women in 101 Objects by Annabelle Hirsch
February 2025 - Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
January 2025 - The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan
December 2024 - The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani
November 2024 - The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina
October 2024 - A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan
September 2024 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
August 2024 - Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen
July 2024 - Another Life by Kristin Hannah
June 2024 - Big Swiss by Jean Beagin
May 2024 – The Colony by Audrey Magee
April 2024 - Happy Head by Josh Silver

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Last updated 01 April 2025