Eleanor Catton's new novel is a thriller about "ultra-rich foreigners building fortress-like homes and stock-piling weapons in New Zealand".
The new book from the Man Booker Prize-winning author will be called Birnham Wood, it was confirmed today.
The Book Seller reported it would be a "psychological thriller" about the ultra-rich preparing for a global catastrophe down under.
"The novel follows the guerrilla gardening outfit Birnam Wood, a ragtag group of quarrelling leftists who move about the country cultivating other people's land," the website reported.
"Their chance encounter with an American billionaire sparks a tragic sequence of events which questions, ultimately, how far each of us would go to ensure our own survival - and at what cost."
