Roger Scruton
Welcome to my website, which is a guide to my professional life as a writer and philosopher. My CV provides detailed information concerning my career.
In 2015 I published two books, The Disappeared and later in the autumn, Fools Frauds and Firebrands. The Disappeared, published by Bloomsbury, has received wonderful reviews and you can read them in the reviews section. One I particularly like is from Douglas Murray at The Spectator. ‘It's a gripping, disturbing narrative dealing with abduction and abuse but also love, escape and a type of redemption’. It is about England, now.
This year, 2016, I have again published two books, Confessions of A Heretic (a collection of essays) and more recently, The Ring of Truth about Wagner’s Ring cycle.
Fools Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left was released on October 8th, coinciding with (though not necessarily causing) the rise of Jeremy Corbyn to become leader of the Labour party. I was consequently promoted to the post of expert on the Corbyn question, being invited to make contributions to The Times, The Observer and The Spectator. Fools, Frauds and Firebrands is an update of Thinkers of the New Left published, to widespread outrage, in 1986. It includes new chapters covering the Parisian nonsense machine – Lacan, Deleuze and Badiou – and some timely thoughts about the historians and social thinkers who led British intellectuals up the garden path during the last decades, including Eric Hobsbawm and Ralph Miliband. All in all a shocking performance, but so far comparatively mildly reviewed.
Notes from Underground, my novel chosen by Ray Tallis as book of the year 2014 in the TLS, has received the bronze award in the Suspense/Thriller category in last year’s IPPY awards. I was also delighted to hear that it was nominated for the IMPAC awards. It has also been translated into Czech and was launched in Prague, during the Forum 2000 conference in September of 2015.
Recent broadcasts have occurred on the BBC's Point of View programme, covering The Ring of the Nibelung, How Should we Build?, A petition against petitions and democracy after Brexit. Podcasts are available on the BBC website.
On Friday 25th November, the investiture ceremony took place at Buckingham Palace and I was knighted by the Prince of Wales.




