Mike’s latest book is Free Radicals, out now in the UK and US. It’s a revised and retitled edition of The Atmosphere of Heaven, originally published in 2009.

His next book will be published by Yale in October.

A revised paperback edition of High Society is out now from Thames & Hudson UK, and a new edition of The Influencing Machine is forthcoming from Strange Attractor Press (in the meantime the US edition is still available under the title A Visionary Madness).

Psychonauts: Drugs and the Making of the Modern Mind and Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic are both available from Yale University Press in paperback, hardback, ebook and audio.

He writes regularly for the London Review of Books (free access long reads on sleep science, madness and revolution, Edgar Allan Poe, memory, hallucinations and perfume), the Literary Review (free access piece on Philip K. Dick), and New York Review of Books (on MDMA, the history of anatomy, psychedelics and books bound in human skin).

More free access essays: On ketamine, for The New Statesman; ‘The Virus and the Martians’, on Covid and H.G. Wells for Lapham’s Quarterly;  ‘Fungi, Folklore and Fairyland’ and ‘The Ether Dreams of Fin-de-Siècle Paris’, illustrated essays for Public Domain Review;  on Coleridge’s hypochondria for Wellcome Collection.

Stranger Than Fiction, a collection of his essays, is available in paperback and ebook.

The Unfortunate Colonel Despard is available in a revised and updated edition. Characters and storylines from the book featured in the final season of BBC TV’s Poldark, on which Mike was the historical consultant.

This Way Madness Lies, an illustrated history of madness and the asylum, is published in the UK and USA by Thames & Hudson.