Mike’s most recent book is High Society, an illustrated global history of drugs, published by Thames & Hudson (UK) and Inner Traditions (US) – publishing details, media and reviews here. The book accompanied the High Society exhibition, which he curated for Wellcome Collection in London in 2010-11.

His next publication will be The Influencing Machine, out next month in paperback and Kindle – details here. Originally published as The Air Loom Gang (2003), it has been fully revised and updated with newly discovered source material.

Emperors of Dreams (originally published in 2000) is also back in print in a new, fully revised and updated edition – details here.