
Adam Kay
A BAFTA-winning, multi-million-bestselling author, TV writer and performer.
Australia & New Zealand live tour - This is Going to Hurt
Following an absolute sell-out tour of Australia and New Zealand in 2024, This is Going to Hurt is back by popular demand. (Also in Singapore, but I'm not doing a separate section just for that.)
A Particularly Nasty Case - UK book tour
A murderously funny evening to launch Adam Kay's debut crime novel A Particularly Nasty Case. Expect the hilarious and the horrifying.
UK live tour - Undoctored
The best-selling show of Edinburgh Fringe 2023 is coming to a theatre somewhere near-ish you, following a sell-out West End season. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll wish he'd stop telling the degloving story.
Books
Links are to bookshop.org - any sale from this page generates a small commission payment, which is donated to The Lullaby Trust, supporting families bereaved of babies and young children.
When a noxious hospital consultant dies of a heart attack, fellow doctor Eitan Rose smells foul play. But nobody else does, including some quite crucial players like the police and the coroner. Adam Kay's first novel - coming 28th August 2025.
A book about an absolute genius who becomes a doctor. Adam has no comment to make about whether or not it was based on him.
Were three million book-buyers wrong? You decide.
The perfect surgical-stocking filler.
100 famous names writing about the NHS. All profits to NHS Charities Together and The Lullaby Trust - £600k and counting.
Both the prequel and the sequel to This is Going to Hurt, about medical school and life after medicine.
Aged 7-12* and want to know how the human body works? You've come to the right place. (*Or a parent who never quite understood.)
Why did hairdressers cut off their customers' legs? Why did patients gargle with wee? This disgusting/informative book explains it all.
For World Book Day 2023, learn about ten ingenious geniuses.
Learn about everything ever invented from the daft to the disgusting to the downright dangerous.
The first picture book from Adam Kay and Henry Paker. About a piece of sweetcorn going on a poo-normous adventure.
Biography
Adam Kay is a BAFTA-winning author, TV writer, comedian and former junior doctor. His first book, This is Going to Hurt, spent over a year at number one in the Sunday Times bestseller list, was translated into 37 languages, won ten national awards, and sold over three million copies. His subsequent adult nonfiction books, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas and Undoctored were also Sunday Times number one bestsellers. He edited Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You, raising over £400,000 for charity. He is also one of the country's bestselling children's authors, with books including Kay's Anatomy (the fastest selling kids' non-fiction book of the decade), Kay's Marvellous Medicine, Kay's Brilliant Brains, Kay's Incredible Inventions and picture book Amy Gets Eaten. His books have sold over five million copies in total.
As a live performer, Adam has sold-out numerous West End seasons and UK tours. His tour of This is Going to Hurt was attended by over 300,000 people and Undoctored was the bestselling show of the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe.
Adam's awards for TV writing include BAFTA and Writers Guild awards for adapting This is Going to Hurt for the BBC and AMC. He is a columnist for the Sunday Times, and a proud patron of The Lullaby Trust, The Laura Hyde Foundation and Doctors in Distress, where he founded the National Memorial Tree Planting Campaign for healthcare workers who have lost their lives by suicide.
Contact
For TV appearances / live / corporate work
Lee Martin
lee@gagreflex.co.uk
For books / journalism
Cath Summerhayes
cathryn.summerhayes@curtisbrown.co.uk
For TV / film writing
Jess Cooper
jessica.cooper@curtisbrown.co.uk
For press enquiries
Dusty Miller
dustymillerPR@gmail.com
07955 904 482
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© Adam Kay 2017-2025
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