Anna North: Bog Queen

We are delighted to welcome New York Times bestselling author Anna North to Frederick on Friday, October 16 from 6:00-7:00 pm at Frederick Book Arts Center. Join us to hear about her bestselling novel, Bog Queen, and learn about female empowerment and the impact of politics on the environment, from the Iron Age to post-Brexit England. Anna will be in-conversation with Holly Smith, editor-in-chief of the Washington Independent Review of Books. Following their conversation, Anna will answer questions and sign books. Copies of Bog Queen will be available for purchase at the event. 

Location: Frederick Book Arts Center, 127 S. Carroll Street, Frederick, MD 21701

This event is free and open to the public. We are proud to partner with Frederick Book Arts Center for this event.

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About the book: From the NYT bestselling author of Outlawed, a forensic anthropologist confronts a strangely well-preserved Iron Age body in this “absorbing, complex mystery” (People magazine).

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.

Soon Agnes is drawn into a mystery from the distant past, called to understand and avenge the death of an Iron Age woman more like her than she knows. Along the way, she must contend with peat-cutters who want to profit from the bog and activists who demand that the land be left undisturbed. Then there’s the moss itself: a repository of artifacts, with its own dark stories to tell.

Flashing between post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe, Bog Queen brims with ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strengths in a landscape more mysterious than either can imagine.

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

About the moderator: Holly Smith is editor-in-chief of the Washington Independent Review of Books, as well as a college lecturer, longtime freelance writer, and proud “Jeopardy!” bronze medalist. Prior to joining the Independent, she was managing editor of Maryland Life magazine. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, CNBC.com , Salon, and elsewhere. She also co-authored the travel guide Seafood Lover’s Chesapeake Bay, which is ironic since she doesn’t eat fish. Find her on Bluesky at @‌HSmithWrites.