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
From the author of the New York Times bestseller Outlawed, the gripping story of an anthropologist's monumental discovery and the clash of civilizations it sets off 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.
The mystery of the Iron Age body draws the attention of numerous groups with competing interests: the archaeologists who want to study the surrounding bog, the peat-cutters who want to profit from the land's resources, and a group of environmental activists and neo-pagans who demand the body be returned to its resting place and that the moss-layered bog-a marvel of carbon capture on a warming planet-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 is drawn into the controversy stirred by the body and its habitat, she must face not only the deep history of what she has unearthed, but also the relationships she has forsworn in her bid for independence. Flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with climate 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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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