For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by subject:
Narcotics

June 2018 Issue

Mick Brown

Trip Advisors

How to Change Your Mind: Exploring the New Science of Psychedelics

By Michael Pollan

December 2016 Issue

Mike Jay

The Drugs Do Work

Mentored by a Madman: The William Burroughs Experiment

By A J Lees

June 2016 Issue

Frances Wilson

Fear and Loathing in LA

Stars, Cars and Crystal Meth: The Adventures of a Personal Assistant Who Could Have Used One Himself

By Jack Sutherland

September 1986 Issue

Diana Athill

Life with a Genius Junkie

The Bondage of Love: A Life of Mrs Samuel Taylor Coleridge

By Molly Lefebure

March 1998 Issue

Carlos Mavroleon

Beware of Lettuce

The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Sustances

By Richard Rudgley

October 2015 Issue

Patrick Wilcken

Rogue of Rocinha

Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio

By Misha Glenny

August 2015 Issue

Matt Potter

A Very Special Recipe

Zero Zero Zero

By Roberto Saviano

Dennis Sewell

Learning From The Mob

Reefer Madness

By Eric Schlosser

June 2003 Issue

James Delingpole

Puff The Magic Dragon

Cannabis: A History

By Martin Booth

February 2015 Issue

Tom Feiling

Looking for a Fix

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs

By Johann Hari

October 2008 Issue

Stephen Amidon

Wild Bard of Woody Creek

Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S Thompson

By William McKeen

April 2008 Issue

John Sweeney

Laughing all the Way to the Money-Launderers

McMafia: Crime Without Frontiers

By Misha Glenny

June 2012 Issue

James Le Fanu

Bitter Pills to Swallow

Pharmageddon

By David Healy

September 2012 Issue

Anthony Daniels

No Magic Pills

Legalize: The Only Way to Combat Drugs

By Max Rendall

December 2012 Issue

Druin Burch

Physic, Heal Thyself

Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

By Ben Goldacre

December 2013 Issue

Malcolm Beith

Supply & Remand

Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers

By Anabel Hernández & translated by Iain Bruce