Bog Queen by North, Anna

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Author: North, AnnaModern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 16 October 2025 by Orion Publishing Co (Weidenfeld & Nicolson) in the United Kingdom.Hardback | 288 pages224 x 145 x 27 | 398g
SPARKLES LIKE UNEARTHED TREASURE KALIANE BRADLEYA MESMERISING NOVEL OBSERVERAN IRIDESCENT CONTEMPORARY FOLKTALE LUCY ROSE Rich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen is the new novel from Anna North, bestselling author of Reeses Book Club Pick Outlawed In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroners office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has seen before: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost perfectly preserved. Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past: the death of an Iron Age queen more like her than she knows. Along the way, she must contend with numerous groups who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. Meanwhile, underfoot, theres the land itself: the wet, teeming colony of moss has its own dark stories to tell. As Agnes becomes tangled in controversies stirred up by her own discovery, she must face the deep history of what she has unearthed. In Bog Queen, the lives of two young women separated by many centuries become inextricably connected, as each learns to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.