Bog Queen

Bog Queen

Hardback (09 Oct 2025)

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9781399629942
Publisher: Orion
Imprint: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Pub date:
Language: English
Number of pages: 240
Weight: -1g
Height: 222mm
Width: 138mm