Bog Queen
A Novel
by Anna North
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Pub Date Oct 14 2025 | Archive Date Sep 30 2025
Bloomsbury USA | Bloomsbury Publishing
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Description
“An absolute astonishment.” -Vauhini Vara, Pulitzer Prize Finalist and author of The Immortal King Rao
The latest from New York Times bestselling novelist Anna North-a monumental discovery sets off a clash of worlds, past and present, over the fate of the land that holds us.
When a body is found in a bog in northwest England, Agnes, an American forensic anthropologist, is called to investigate. But this body is not like any she's ever seen. Though its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, it is almost completely preserved.
Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past, called to understand and avenge the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows. Along the way, she must contend with peat-cutters who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. Then there's the moss itself: a complex repository of artifacts and remains, with its own dark stories to tell.
As Agnes faces the deep history of what she has unearthed, she's also forced to question what she thought she knew about her talent, her self-reliance, and her place in the world. Flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with contemporary urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious and complex than either can imagine.
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781635579666 |
PRICE | $28.99 (USD) |
PAGES | 288 |
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Featured Reviews

American anthropologist, Agnes, is called in to study a bog body found in northern England. Perfectly preserved for 2,000 years, the finding fascinates the public and the archaeologists who want to examine the body and the surroundings. Local peat cutters are frustrated because they are being kept from, harvesting the peat they need to make money. And there are climatologists and scientists who have noticed something unusual in the layers of soil around the body. Add in local pagans who don’t want the body disturbed and Agnes has a veritable circus on her hands. This is a fascinating and often sobering reminder of how we view our world and our place in it’s ultimate survival or destruction

The Book 🌱📚
Haunting, raw, and strangely beautiful—this one got under my skin in the best way. In 2018, a forensic scientist is drawn into a chilling body case that feels eerily personal. In 50 BCE, a druid woman walks headfirst into danger, transformation, and power. Linking them across time? Moss. Yes, moss—observing, remembering, almost alive.
What struck me most was the deep interconnectedness—grief, memory, land, bodies. Whether it’s ancient past or modern day, the pain echoes. The silence does too. But this story doesn’t stay silent. It digs up what we’ve buried—willingly or not. And the moss? It’s more than backdrop. It’s a witness. A keeper. The Earth, quietly watching and whispering back.
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