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The Sick Rose is a beautifully gruesome and strangely fascinating visual tour through disease in an age before colour photography. This stunning volume, combining detailed illustrations of afflicted patients from some of the worlds rarest medical books, forms an unforgettable and profoundly human re...

"The Psychedelic Experience", created by the prophetic shaman-professors Timothy Leary, Ralph Metzer and Richard Alpert, is a foundational text that serves as a model and a guide for all subsequent mind-expanding inquiries. In this wholly unique book, the authors provide an interpretation of an anci...

What do you do with death and dying when they can no longer be pushed to the outer limits of your lived experience or dismissed from your conscious mind? How do you live with death or rather how do you 'live death' when death comes too close, seeming to enter the very air you breathe? a collection o...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTIONNamed one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue“Remarkable." –Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review"At once a rigorous work of scholarship and a radical act of empathy."—Esqu...

The profoundly wise and humane account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades.Discover this profound account of Huxley's famous experimentation with mescalin that has influenced writers and artists for decades.‘Concise, evocative, wise ...

Could psychedelic drugs change our worldview? One of America's most revered writers takes us on a mind-altering journey to the frontiers of human consciousness'It's as if we made entering gothic cathedrals illegal, or museums, or sunsets!'When LSD was first discovered in the 1940s, it seemed to rese...

A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing."A real-life version of the HBO series Succession wi...

The opposite of addiction is connection.What if everything we've been told about addiction is wrong? One of Johann Hari's earliest memories is of trying to wake up one of his relatives and not being able to. As he grew older, he realised there was addiction in his family. Confused, he set out on a t...

For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being ...

A moving memoir of a young woman's reckoning with her parents' absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyper-connected worldIn the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost her parents to AIDS. Orphaned by age ten, she was raised by her grandmother in Los Angeles, a ...

Robin Lane Fox rethinks the origins of ancient medicine as the ethical foundation of our modern practice (doctors still recite the Hippocratic Oath) and demonstrates that core medical texts were written, perhaps by Hippocrates, 2-3 generations earlier than we thought.

I have doubts that we can vaccinate away our prejudices, or wash our hands of them. There will always be diseases against which we cannot protect ourselves, and those diseases will always tempt us to project our fears onto other people. but I still believe there are reasons to vaccinate that transce...

How women were removed from the Scientific Revolution, and what we lost as a result.The running joke in Europe for centuries was that anyone in a hurry to die should call the doctor. As far back as ancient Greece, physicians were notorious for administering painful and often fatal treatments and cha...

A gripping exposé of New Zealand's failing health systemThis compelling tell-all reveals the realities of working as a doctor in New Zealand.Fast-paced and darkly funny, it chronicles ten years of working in medicine and sheds a light on where and why the health system is failing.From bullying and ...

A revelatory history of humanity – spanning thousands of years and ranging across the world – told through the lens of a misunderstood disease.‘Remarkable. grippingly and humanely recounted.’PHILIPPE SANDS''It is impossible not to be moved by the lives unfolding in these pages, impossible no...

Rosemary Woodruff Leary has been known only as the wife of Timothy Leary, the Harvard professor-turned-psychedelic high priest, whose jailbreak captivated the counterculture and whose life on the run with Rosemary inflamed the U.S. government. But Rosemary was more than a mere accessory. She was a b...

WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, NEW SCIENTIST, AND PROSPECT'What a book. The perfect book' Chris Evans on Virgin Radio'Profoundly moving and at the same time wildly inspiri...