Tommy Robinson Books in Order

If you want the core memoir: Tommy Robinson Enemy of the State
If you want his own account of how he became a public figure: Tommy Robinson Enemy of the State
If you want the clearest place to begin: Tommy Robinson Enemy of the State

Tommy Robinson is the public name used by Stephen Christopher Yaxley-Lennon, who was born on November 27, 1982, in Luton, Bedfordshire, and grew up there. Luton sits at the center of almost everything he has written and said in public. It is the place he returns to when he explains his politics, his anger, and the image he has built over time.

After leaving school, he trained as an aircraft engineer through an apprenticeship at Luton Airport. That gave him a practical trade and a fairly ordinary path at first. But his life soon moved in a very different direction, away from engineering and toward street politics, media attention, and court cases.

The name Tommy Robinson was part of that shift. It was a pseudonym, borrowed from a Luton football hooligan, and it became the name under which most people came to know him. Before and around the start of his activism he also used other aliases, which added to the sense that he was building a public persona as much as a private life.

A major turning point came in 2009, when he helped found the English Defence League, or EDL. He became the group's best-known spokesman and led it until 2013. His campaigning focused on Islamist extremism and immigration. Supporters saw him as blunt and willing to say what others would not. Critics argued that his rhetoric fed anti-Muslim hostility and helped push far-right ideas further into mainstream debate.

He stayed in the spotlight after leaving the EDL.

Over the next several years, Robinson reworked himself as an online commentator, rally organizer, and self-styled citizen journalist. He appeared in interviews, built a large social media following, and kept returning to the same subjects: free speech, grooming-gang scandals, migration, policing, and what he sees as a failure of British institutions. His public life has also been marked by repeated legal troubles and prison sentences, which he has often folded into his own account of being targeted by the state.

Writing became one more way to tell that story.

His 2015 memoir, Tommy Robinson Enemy of the State, is his personal account of childhood in Luton, the making of the Tommy Robinson identity, and the years that made him nationally known. Readers who pick it up are usually looking for his version of events, told in a direct, combative voice. Supporters tend to respond to that bluntness. Critics see the same quality as one-sided and inflammatory.

He followed it with Mohammed's Koran, a 2017 book co-written with Peter McLoughlin, which shifts from memoir into political and religious polemic. Taken together, the two books show the split at the center of his writing, autobiography on one side, argument on the other.

He remains active in public life, especially online and at rallies, and he still draws attention far beyond Britain. That means his books are often read in two ways at once: as personal testimony from one of the country's most divisive activists, and as part of the wider campaign he continues to wage.