The Mirror of Great BritainA major reassessment of one of Britain's most strange and fascinating kings, James I of England and VI of Scotland James VI and I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britain's most consequential and interesting monarchs, not least in creating the British monarchy itself by joining the English and Scottish thrones. A major intellectual, James's preoccupations ranged from witchcraft and theological controversy to hunting, diplomacy, poetry and sartorial

encouraging a more nuanced understanding of the cultural landscape of the 1920s and 1930s

You are beginning to understand that witches have power

Painstakingly researched

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'Africa Is Not A Country' looks to a wide range of subjects

but this body has been there for decades

As Yasmin dismantles her own assumptions about the people she holds most dear

The Doctor of Hiroshima is the extraordinary true story of Dr Michihiko Hachiya

that one great wish you would give anything for

over the internet or asked people to record themselves

The green-eyed children of Crake are his responsibility

an unexpected future for this once estranged couple begins to emerge