One Book One Campus 2025
One Book One Campus is a reading event for all students and staff at Utrecht University. 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 University 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…
*Do you prefer the Dutch translation? Order 'Het Woud van Birnam'.
E-books and audiobooks
It is not possible to order e-books and audiobooks via the order links. You can buy the English e-book via Bol.
Or would you rather listen to the book? English audiobooks are available on various (paid) platforms, for instance Audible.
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.
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'.
It is just more fun when you can discuss a book you read together
Contact
Questions or suggestions? You can reach us via onebookonecampus@uu.nl.