Richard Barnett

I’m a writer and broadcaster, mostly on the history of science and medicine, and a poet. 

My books – translated into eight languages so far – include international bestseller The Sick Rose, Medical London, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and the award-winning poetry collection Seahouses.

I also write and present Sun Street Passage, a new monthly podcast telling London’s story, one street at a time. And my essays and reviews have appeared in many places, from the London Review of Books to the Lancet.

My latest book, Wherever We Are When We Come To The End, is out now with Valley Press. My next book – another gloriously vivid, gruesomely colourful voyage into the history of anatomy – will be out later this year.