Blood Legacy: reckoning with a family’s story of slavery
“Courageous, deeply affecting and excoriatingly honest” - Philippe Sands, Financial Times
“Alex Renton has done Britain a favour and written a brutally honest book about his family's involvement with slavery. Blood Legacy could change our frequently defensive national conversation about slavery/race” - Sathnam Sanghera, The Times
“Fascinating… this book is truth not fiction” - Sir Geoff Palmer
“A deeply moving, brave and thought-provoking book” - Andrew Marr (read his review in the Sunday Times)
Published May 2021, Canongate Books
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13 Foods That Shape Our World: how our hunger has changed the past, present and future
The first book for BBC Radio Four’s legendary The Food Programme, Alex Renton draws on the series’ archive and his own career investigating food and food culture across the world for a vital, entertaining look at our most important staples and the joys and risks they hold for the 21st century.
Published May 2022, BBC Books
‘The question that haunts this fascinating compendium is how a better, more honest food industry can ever be combined with an affordable one.’ Daily Mail
This is the story of generations of parents, Britain’s richest and grandest, who believed that being miserable at school was necessary to make a good and successful citizen. Childish suffering was a price they accepted for the preservation of their class, and their entitlement. The children who were moulded by this misery and abuse went on – as they still do – to run Britain’s public institutions and private companies
'A brave and necessary book' The Guardian
'Shocking, gripping and sobering' Sunday Telegraph
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Published 2017 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
