Mike Jay’s next book will be High Society, an illustrated global history of drugs, forthcoming in the UK from Thames & Hudson and in the US from Inner Traditions/Park Street Press in November, and in German from Primus Verlag in Spring 2011.

The book accompanies an exhibition which he is curating for Wellcome Collection, opening in London on 11 November – advance details here. The High Society project will also include documentary film, a website and a programme of live events – more details nearer the time.

His most recent book is The Atmosphere of Heaven, out now from Yale University Press – details, reviews and links to related articles, interviews and podcasts here. The paperback edition is forthcoming in September.

A French edition of James Lee’s The Underworld of the East, with a new introduction by Mike, is now out – details here

There’s a new article up – “Watson: The Needle!”: Sherlock Holmes and Cocaine