Critter Chat: Bog Queen by Anna North
Schedule
Wed, 04 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
1413 Eoff St, Wheeling, WV 26003-3554, United States | Wheeling, WV
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It’s hard for us to resist anything with “Bog” in the title. Almost an immediate add to the giant TBR every time. This one was just released in October, so add it to your library lists ASAP. This will be our first meeting at Midge's Kitchen at the State Cellar (1413 Eoff Street downstairs in the First State Capitol Building; the entrance is on 15th Street). You are welcome to BYO whatever! Nat and I will likely bring some basic snacks and beverages to share, and we are even able to use the space to warm something up, etc.
Description:
“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 complex repository of artifacts and remains, with its own dark stories to tell.
As Agnes faces the deep history of what she has unearthed, she's also forced to question what she thought she knew about her talent, her self-reliance, and her place in the world. Flashing between the uncertainty of post-Brexit England and the druidic order of Celtic Europe at the dawn of the Roman era, Bog Queen brims with contemporary urgency and ancient wisdom as it connects across time two gifted, farsighted young women learning to harness their strange strengths in a landscape more mysterious and complex than either can imagine.”
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