Bog Queen

A colony of moss does not express preferences for certain people, living or dead. But if such a colony of moss did decide to reveal its favourites, let us just say this: You might be surprised. 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. In 50 BCE, a female druid is travelling to a city in the South where she will appear before the new king. And underfoot, all along, a teeming colony of moss is opening its wet mouth, waiting. In this wonderfully strange, multi-layered story, the unexpected discovery of an ancient bog body becomes a pinprick of light in the depths of humanity''s history.

Product details

• Authors: Anna North, North Anna
• Publisher: Weidenfeld and Nicolson
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.10.2025
• EAN: 9781399629942
• ISBN: 978-1-399-62994-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / Ancient, FICTION / Fairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & Mythology, Horror & ghost stories, Folklore, myths & legends, Shamanism, paganism & druidry, Horror and supernatural fiction, Ancient religions & mythologies, Ancient religions and Mythologies, Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)