Anna North

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. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has ever seen: its bones prove it was buried more than two thousand years ago, yet it is almost completely preserved. The body...

'This feminist Western will keep you on the edge of your seat' Reese Witherspoon'A real treat' Jenny Zhang'Shares concerns with The Handmaid's Tale and The Crucible but is distinctly itself' The i'Contains basically everything I want in a book' VoxIn the year of our Lord 1894, I became an outlaw.Ada loves her broad-shouldered, bashful husband and her job as a...

'An iridescent contemporary folktale' LUCY ROSE 'A mesmerising novel' OBSERVER 'Sparkles like unearthed treasure' KALIANE BRADLEY Agnes, a young forensic anthropologist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any she has seen before - its bones prove it...