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Reparations: Slavery and the Tyranny of Imaginary Guilt

Nigel Biggar

Reparations is the successor to the Nigel Biggar’s Colonialism, which was a Sunday Times bestseller and Bookscanned over 15,000 £25 HBs
The issue of reparations has become a major issue today, and a book engaging with its moral complexity is sorely needed
Widespread attention is guaranteed – Colonialism caused controversy when it was dropped by Bloomsbury only to be picked up to great success by HarperCollins.
In the meantime, Nigel Biggar has been made a life peer and member of the House of Lords

Nigel Biggar

Nigel Biggar, CBE is Lord Biggar of Castle Douglas and Emeritus Regius Professor of Moral Theology at the University of Oxford. Described as “one of the leading living Western ethicists” (John Gray, New Statesman, 2020), he was appointed Commander of the British Empire “for services to higher education” in the 2021 Queen’s Birthday Honours list and named one of Prospect magazine’s Top Thinkers of 2024. In January 2025 he entered the House of Lords as a Conservative peer. He is the author of the best-selling Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning.