Bog Queen

By: Anna North

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Paperback | 14 October 2025 | Edition Number 1

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In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has ever seen: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost completely preserved.

The body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests: archaeologists desperate to study the bog, those who want to profit from the land's resources, a group of neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place. And underfoot, all along, there's the land itself: a teeming colony of moss, with its own dark stories to tell.

As Agnes becomes tangled in controversies stirred by her own discovery, she must face the deep history of what she has unearthed. Equally alive to post-Brexit England and Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen connects across time two young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a rich, raw landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.

About the Author

Anna North is the author of three novels: Outlawed, America Pacifica, and The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. Published in 2021, Outlawed was a New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club and Belletrist pick. In addition to her fiction writing, she is also a senior correspondent at Vox, covering American work and family life. Previously, she was a writer and editor at the New York Times, Salon, BuzzFeed and Jezebel. Anna North grew up in Los Angeles, graduated from the Iowa Writers' Workshop in 2009, and now lives in Brooklyn.

Industry Reviews

Outlawed shares concerns with The Handmaid's Tale and The Crucible, but is distinctly itself. This is first a moving examination of how the marginalised find friendship in an indifferent world and only second, a western. - i PAPER (on OUTLAWED)

Anna North makes prose look easy - Lena Dunham (on THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOPHIE STARK)

A thrilling tale eerily familiar but utterly transformed . . . In North's galloping prose, it's a fantastically cinematic adventure - WASHINTON POST (on OUTLAWED)

I read with my heart in my mouth. Not only a dissection of genius and the havoc it can wreak, but also a thunderously good story - Emma Donoghue (on THE LIFE AND DEATH OF SOPHIE STARK)

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