QUEEN JAMES: THE LIVES AND LOVES OF BRITAINS FIRST KING (PB)

James Stuart, the first King of England, Scotland and Ireland following the Union of the Crowns in 1604, 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' and was infatuated three more times - with a Highland earl, a Welsh lord and an English spy. 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, expertly weaving the bedchamber gossip into the tapestry of a tumultuous reign.