'An iridescent contemporary folktale' LUCY ROSE

'A mesmerising novel' OBSERVER

'Sparkles like unearthed treasure' KALIANE BRADLEY

Agnes, a young forensic anthropologist, 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 she 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 complex, ancient mystery: the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows.

Rich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen weaves together the lives of two young women separated by many centuries - and connected by a landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.

"To this resonant mystery, Anna North brings a timely exploration of power, landscape and deep time, building a mesmerising novel" - Observer

"Two dauntless women, centuries apart, find themselves coping with shifting alliances in the changeable territory of northern England. The dual timelines unspool the stories of an awkward forensic scientist named Agnes and a young Druid priestess, whose beautifully preserved body becomes the focal point of an involving drama, as contemporary ecological woes interweave with the mysteries of the past in a mossy, seemingly sentient terrain" - Daily Mail

"A beautifully rendered tale that spans two millennia of history and centres on two very different women and their relationship with the marshes of this provincial English town . . . Thrilling" - Buzz Magazine

"A memorable tale of the unexpected linkages of history, land and female power. North widens her range with this layered mystery-meets-ancient-history mashup" - Kirkus

"A remarkably crafted tale that asks important questions about the imprint we leave on our loved ones, our culture, and our land" - Booklist

"Bog Queen offers something for true crime fans as well as ancient history buffs . . . The mystery unfolds in two timelines, interspersing Agnes' fascinating investigation and the environmental and ethical issues it raises with the story of the Iron Age people who once traversed the same land" - Bookpage

"The mysteries in Bog Queen captivate . . . Highly recommended" - Historical Novel Society

"Piercing . . . Part of the novel's thrill comes from the way in which North leaves the rest of the mystery for the reader to piece together . . . North reaches new heights with this brilliant novel" - Publishers Weekly, starred review

"A strangely well-preserved Iron Age body turns up in an English bog, and the American forensic anthropologist on the case is thrust into an absorbing, complex mystery" - People Magazine

"I was completely engrossed by Anna North's Bog Queen, a tense and atmospheric literary thriller with a strong sense of place" - Esquire, 'Best Books of the Year'

"In this ecologically inflected novel, Agnes, a forensic anthropologist is asked to identify the body of a woman found in an English peat bog . . . the novel alternates between Agnes's life and that of the woman, a Celtic druid . . . Agnes's investigation sparks a new attention to the world around her, and the novel's sensibility mirrors the peat organisms themselves" - New Yorker