Andy Roberts
Vale of Pewsey: Psychedelic Press, 2025.

“Doctors believed LSD was a panacea for disorders of the mind. The Secret Intelligence Services and Ministry of Defence were confident they could harness the drug’s powers for interrogation and the battlefield. Countercultures celebrated acid as not only a hotline to spiritual experience, but also a wonderland of the senses. Governments decried it. LSD remains protean. Andy Roberts’ Albion Dreaming tells the extraordinary story of how LSD helped shape British society and culture since its introduction in the early 1950s. First published in 2008, this new and revised edition benefits from the author’s many years of continued research into psychedelic history and the addition of several appendices.” (publisher’s blurb) The sold out hardcover printing of the revised edition.

Robert Dickins
Vale of Pewsey: Psychedelic Press, 2024.

“Cobweb of Trips is a literary history of psychedelics that catches a sublime aesthetic weaving its way through mid-twentieth century Britain and beyond – one which asks how early experimenters sought to find a role for psychedelics in society. Spinning a psychospiritual thread from literature and the history of medicine, this story brings to light how the question of psychedelics, and the trips people had, were animated by the era’s cultural transformations. From spiritual reimaginings and scientific novelty, to political agitation and the counterculture of the 1960s, Cobweb of Trips is a poetic thread emerging when the psychedelic experience alighted in modern history.” (publisher’s blurb)