Anna North is the author of the instant New York Times bestseller and Reese's Book Club pick Outlawed, America Pacifica, and Lambda Literary Award winner The Life and Death of Sophie Stark. She is a senior correspondent at Vox. She lives in Brooklyn.

"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 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

"A page-turning mystery and a graceful, sincere evocation of internal and external power struggles in changing worlds, from Roman Britain to a climate-broken UK. Bog Queen sparkles like unearthed treasure." --Kaliane Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of THE MINISTRY OF TIME

"Bog Queen is a story I won't soon forget: exquisitely observed and filled with details about moss, druids, and dead bodies I wasn't aware I needed to know (but am now pleased to). Daring, delightful, and moving, this novel should be required reading for all of us facing a changing climate and uncertain future. I loved being inside Anna North's curious, compassionate perspective; I'll follow her anywhere, and to any time." --Rachel Khong, New York Times bestselling author of REAL AMERICANS

"I can't remember the last time a novel so moved and transfixed me. Bog Queen is infused with a profound wisdom about human ambition across the millennia-how enormous it has been, and also how insignificant-that seems to transcend human understanding, as if delivered by the old gods themselves. An absolute astonishment." --Vauhini Vara, author of Pulitzer Prize Finalist THE IMMORTAL KING RAO

"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 Reviews

"With rich, elegiac prose, Anna North's Bog Queen travels between modern day England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe to ask what we owe the past, the earth, and ultimately, each other. A book of magic and healing." --Jenny Tinghui Zhang, author of FOUR TREASURES OF THE SKY

"Wise, beautifully written, and transcendent in feeling, Bog Queen is exactly the kind of novel I love. North deftly weaves between the past and present to show us the complicated and far-reaching web that connects us all through time and space.
" --Rita Chang-Eppig, author of DEEP AS THE SKY, RED AS THE SEA

"A lightning strike of a novel by a visionary storyteller. Bog Queen is an earthly meditation; a page-turning mystery; and a tale of power, profit, and dominion as old as time. Anna North is simply brilliant.
" --Jung Yun, author of SHELTER and O BEAUTIFUL

"Bog Queen is an iridescent contemporary folktale, steeped with peat, memory and myth. Its writing shimmers with strange beauty, perfect for those who crave the haunting stories the earth remembers for us." --Lucy Rose, author of THE LAMB

"In measured, textural prose, North takes us from the expected mysteries of a body in a bog into a reflection on the web of life that links everyone. That insight, com-bined with a page-turning narrative, makes Bog Queen a book with something to offer any thoughtful reader." --BookPage

"Outlawed stirs up the western with a provocative blend of alt-history and feminist consciousness . . . In North's galloping prose, it's a fantastically cinematic adventure that turns the sexual politics of the Old West inside out." --Ron Charles, Washington Post, "Best of the Year" on OUTLAWED

"North presents a far different perspective on the [Western] genre, one forged by women, Black and nonbinary people looking for the freedom, space and right to exist in a world that largely doesn't want them . . . Captivating." --USA Today, "Best New Books" on OUTLAWED

"Fans of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale are in for a stellar ride . . . North's story [is] as experimental and novel as it is classic." --Boston Globe on OUTLAWED

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Pub date: 2025-10-14

Length: 288 pages