Gareth Russell: Queen James

Sunday 25 May, 1:00pm, Derby College DE24 8JE

Kindly sponsored by East Midlands Business Chamber

Gareth will be in conversation with Professor Keith McLay, Chair of Derby Book Festival and Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Derby

This event will be filmed and made available as a digital recording after the Festival. Available for purchase here.

James Stuart, King of England, Scotland and Ireland did not always love wisely, but he never failed to do so boldly. He fell in love three times – with a Scottish lord, a knight and George Villiers, ‘the handsomest man in the whole world’. He was infatuated three more times – with a Highland earl, a Welsh lord and an English spy. We know so much about the six wives of Henry VIII, why not the six loves of James I? 

This groundbreaking new book puts James - genius, liar, spendthrift, idealist, witch-hunter – and the men he loved at the centre of one of the most dramatic stories in British royal history.

Gareth Russell is a historian, novelist, and playwright. He is the author of several books, including The Palace, The Ship of Dreams, Young and Damned and Fair, The Emperors, and Do Let’s Have Another Drink.