Writer
& Journalist

I’m a campaigning journalist, broadcaster and historian currently working on poverty, the legacies of slavery and crimes against children. I’ve won awards for investigative journalism, conflict reporting and food writing.

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Some of my recent books

 
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Blood Legacy

reckoning with a family’s story of slavery 

Alex Renton’s new book was published in May 2021 by Canongate Books.

Longlisted for the 2021 Baillie Gifford prize for non-fiction - video

“A deeply moving, brave and thought-provoking book” Andrew Marr. His Sunday Times review here


Journalism

Blog
Blood Legacy
Blood Legacy
Flogging vice out, virtue in
Flogging vice out, virtue in
Fear, lies and abuse: the private school cover-up
Stiff Upper Lip in the Times
Stiff Upper Lip in the Times
Enable children to talk and then listen to them – the only solution
Enable children to talk and then listen to them – the only solution
The free-from-fear diet
The free-from-fear diet
A story for immigrants: the tragic fate of the Anglo-Italians in the Second World War
A story for immigrants: the tragic fate of the Anglo-Italians in the Second World War
Why we should turn our backs on boarding schools
Why we should turn our backs on boarding schools
Climate change is triggering "extreme geological events", like the Nepal earthquake
Climate change is triggering "extreme geological events", like the Nepal earthquake
Nathan Myhrvold – dinosaur-hunting, myth-busting physicist geek chef inventor tycoon (and lots of other things too)
Nathan Myhrvold – dinosaur-hunting, myth-busting physicist geek chef inventor tycoon (and lots of other things too)