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The best new books released in March, as selected by avid readers and critics

Short stories by Margaret Atwood, a thriller from a Booker Prize winner, and an interrogation of our cultural obsession with true crime are among our favourite new books.

ABC News · Mar 31, 2023

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – hippies v billionaires

In her third novel, the Booker winner captures our collective despair about an unequal world in a finely spun web of misunderstandings

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2023

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton review – the root of all evil

The Booker-winner’s dark and brilliant tale of a gardening collective’s clash with a billionaire explodes the notion of caring capitalism

The Guardian - UK · Feb 26, 2023