Mike’s next book is Free Radicals, forthcoming from Yale in June in the UK, and August in the US. It’s a revised and retitled edition of The Atmosphere of Heaven, originally published in 2009.

He is currently writing a new book for Yale, to be published in 2026.

A revised paperback edition of High Society is out now from Thames & Hudson UK.

The paperback of his most recent book, Psychonauts: drugs and the making of the modern mind, is available from Yale in the US and UK.

His previous book, Mescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic, is available 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 pieces: ‘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.

The Influencing Machine is available in paperback and on Kindle. It’s published in the US under the title A Visionary Madness.