David Renton

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Barrister (Garden Court) #ukemplaw #housinglaw. Historian and writer. Professor of Practice SOAS. Most recent book, on Horatio Bottomley, now out with Routledge. After that? Books coming on freedom of expression, the anti-fascist novel, forgiveness...
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Out next May

"Renton rescues ‘forgiveness' from the pulpit and returns it, bloodied but lucid, to history. With a barrister’s intolerance for cant and a socialist’s contempt for vicarious absolution, he shows that forgiveness with justice is radical realpolitik"
—Richard Seymour

https://shorturl.at/WWeS5

Cover reveal:
Comrade Delta The 2013 Crisis in Britain’s Largest Far-Left Party

“An honest, balanced & well-documented account of an appalling episode” Ian Birchall

"An impeccably researched reckoning with the causes of a catastrophic betrayal" Sophie Lewis

Out in July 2026

https://shorturl.at/emntq

A Substack from me, addressing the consequences of the Tommy Robinson movement last weekend. We probably won't see more marches on that scale this year. What will happen, though, is a huge boost of energy for Farage and Reform

https://davidrenton590934.substack.com/p/tommy-robinson-huge-numbers-but-facing

This work of love and rage will be out in May next year with Haymarket; it's for anyone who cares about Marx (Eleanor, of course), HG Wells, Albie Sachs, Victor Hugo, Jean Améry, Hannah Arendt, György Lukács, Leon Trotsky, Victor Serge...

New video for my novel-

The Story of Jenny Greenteeth: By one who knew her. https://shorturl.at/XLuYc New #urbanhorror #folkhorror. £3.99 on kindle. Fear has changed sides

With big thanks to Matt Saywell and Natalie Melton

Defend the refugees at the Thistle Hotel

Saturday - 2nd August - 1230. Thistle City Baribican Hotel, 120 Central street EC1V 8DS

Ebook published today. Jenny Greenteeth says:-
"Thy rage was sweet as blood, it raised me from my bower."

To read her story, order her book which is available for just £3.99 (or in paper at 56a, Housmans, News from Nowhere).

"Do my looks discontent thee?"

https://shorturl.at/XLuYc

This came in the post

“Fear has changed sides”.

Bully, pimp, perpetator – Jenny’s coming to get you. Available for pre-order now on Kindle, just £3.99. https://shorturl.at/XVBvY“

Urban horror, folk horror, London, grisly murders, a mystery set in the distant past – why not pre-order your copy?