Mike Jay is currently writing a new book for Yale University Press. A revised, compact edition of High Society is forthcoming from Thames & Hudson later this year.
The paperback of his latest book, Psychonauts: drugs and the making of the modern mind, is out now from Yale in the UK (April 30 in the US).
His previous book, Mescaline: a global history of the first psychedelic, is available in paperback, hardback, ebook and audio.
Books in order of publication:
1900: A Fin-de-Siècle Reader – 1999
Blue Tide: the search for SOMA – 1999
Artificial Paradises – 1999
Emperors of Dreams – 2000
The Influencing Machine: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom – 2003
The Unfortunate Colonel Despard – 2004
Medical London: City of Diseases, City of Cures: Two thousand years of life and death in London – 2008
The Atmosphere of Heaven – 2009
High Society: The Central Role of Mind-Altering Drugs in History, Science, and Culture – 2010
This Way Madness Lies -2016
Stranger Than Fiction – 2018
Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic – 2019
Psychonauts – 2023
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