The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I by Clare Jackson Groundswell Speaker 2024 so Ali Smith draws us

so Ali Smith draws us into a beautiful

along with explanations and substitutions for any hard-to-find ingredients

a beaver lodge's 'spillikin stave church' and a hive's 'reactor core'

snapping maws

the family's attempts to create a new life unravel - and then the adults make an unthinkable decision

The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I by Clare Jackson Groundswell Speaker 2024 so Ali Smith draws usDATE OF RELEASE: 27 AUG 2026 A major reassessment of one of Britains most important monarchs A Financial Times History Book of the Year 2025 'After finishing this beguiling book, there seems no point in reading anything else In research, analysis and imagination, its a masterpiece' Gerard de Groot, The Times James VI & I, who died 400 years ago, was one of Britains most consequential and interesting monarchs, not least in creating the British monarchy