The novelists are at great pains to invent odd titles nowadays. For one book with a title as unpretentious as that of "Adam Bede," for instance, we have a dozen with whimsical names cleverly ...

Laura Wood has written her first novel for adults—having written 15 Young Adult and middle-grade books. It says a lot about a person that, after opening the door to find their sister ...

It’s the story line of a new novel by Elaine Ramsay, originally from Ruislip, and draws on her experiences of walking her dogs in nearby Park Woods. The Secret of Whylder Wood is her second novel. You ...

I compile the monthly New Titles: Fiction. A freelance critic ... Political but not partisan, Birnam Wood is a book that demands attention, not by pompously insisting on its own significance ...

Wood’s fellow Australians have been praising this story about a small abbey of nuns since the novel was published in 2023. Last year, it was a finalist for Britain’s Booker Prize. And now ...

Toward the end of “Birnam Wood” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), the latest novel from the New Zealand writer Eleanor Catton, Rosie Demarney, an otherwise minor character, gets a moment in the ...

The title is borrowed ... Though Birnam Wood is animated by urgent political and environmental questions, Catton doesn’t believe in using the novel as a vehicle for activism.

Australian writer Charlotte Wood had just finished her new novel – about a cloistered religious community – when she found her own world stripped back to the basics. Wood, 58, was diagnosed ...