Gareth Russell is a historian and broadcaster. He is the author of “Queen James,” (a BBC History Book of the Year, a Daily Mail Book of the Year, a Waterstones Best History Book 2025, an Esquire Book of the Year, a Historia Book of the Year, an Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best New History Book; published as “The Six Loves of James I” in Canada and the USA), “The Palace” (Amazon Editor’s Pick for Best New History, A Waterstones Best Book of 2023, BBC History Book of the Year, Town and Country Must-Read, an Aspects of History Best Book of 2023), “Do Let’s Have Another Drink” (A Times Book of the Year, 2022), “The Ship of Dreams” (A Daily Telegraph Best History Book, 2019), and “Young and Damned and Fair.”
Books in order of publication:
Novels
Popular (2011)
The Immaculate Deception (2012)
Non-Fiction
The Emperors: How Europe’s Rulers were destroyed by World War I (2014)
An Illustrated Introduction to the Tudors (2014)
A History of the English Monarchy from Boadicea to Elizabeth I (2015)
Young and Damned and Fair: The Life of Catherine Howard, Fifth Wife of King Henry VIII (US title) (2017)
In the UK, this book’s subtitle is The Life and Tragedy of Catherine Howard at the Court of Henry VIII
The Ship of Dreams: The Sinking of the Titanic and the End of the Edwardian Era (2019), originally published as The Darksome Bounds of a Failing World in the UK and Ireland
Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Singular Wit and Double Measures of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (2022). In the US and Canada, the book is Do Let’s Have Another Drink: The Dry Wit and Fizzy Life of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court (2023)
Queen James: The Lives and Loves of Britain’s First King (London: William Collins, 2025). Also to be published as The Six Loves of James I. Atria Books.
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