Dr Marieke Bigg is an author of fiction and nonfiction.

Marieke exposes the social questions at the heart of medicine and mental health. Her books, This Won’t Hurt, Waiting for Ted, and A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be are available now.

This Won’t Hurt is the debut nonfiction by Dr Marieke Bigg. Exploring all the ways in which medicine is not gender neutral, Bigg argues that the science and practice of medicine has failed women. Putting women at the heart of medicine, on the other hand, will benefit us all.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Waiting for Ted is the debut novel of by Marieke Bigg. Fervently feminist, this book of literary fiction charts the destruction of a relationship at the hands of an expensive chaise longue.

Published by Dead Ink Books.

OUT NOW. 

The beetle doesn’t need recognition, she is happy to be left to work. Her gratification comes from the doing. But she would prefer not to be vilified.

Jacky ‘The Beetle’ McKenzie is, if you ask her, the most sensible and rational person in the world. Unfortunately, her ordinary and the rest of the world’s ordinary don’t mix. To the rest of the world, she is belligerent, weird, obsessive, angry and volatile.

Always, in the background, husband Mark and girlfriend Clarissa have one eye on each other, both asking the same question – which of them will abandon her, and which will be left to pick up the pieces?

A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be invites us into the mind of an architect on her quest to streamline her life, along with her buildings. This is a case study on what happens when obstinate obsession comes up against an unyielding society.

Published by Dead Ink Books. 

  • “A brilliant book... There is so much to unlearn, there is so much that also follows in terms of how medicine could support - rather than fail - half the world's population."

    Dr Helen Pankhurst CBE

  • “A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.”

    Irish Times

  • “She is balanced in her evidence analysis, forensic in her research.”

    The Telegraph

  • “A ground-breaking new book.”

    Evening Standard

Events & Contact

Marieke is available to speak on panels, podcasts, and events to shed light on the social dimensions of gender and medicine.

Previous engagements have included Ireland AM, BBC Radio Scotland and various podcasts. She has appeared in The Irish Times, Evening Standard and similar publications.

Marieke also collaborates with renowned scientists, artists and academics on projects that imagine the future of reproductive science.

For book queries, contact Eli Keren at London United Agents.

Want to collaborate with Marieke? Find out more here.

  • Cheltenham Festival

    8 June 7:30-8:30PM
    Parabola Arts Centre, Cheltenham

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  • Bradford Literature Festival

    23 June - 2 July
    Bradford

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  • Being Human Festival

    9 - 18 November
    London


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  • Wantage Literary Festival

    21 October The Beacon, Wantage

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  • Patient Safety Conference

    5 September Royal Society Medicine, London

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  • The Alternative Book Fair

    16 March, 2024 4pm

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  • UN Commission on the Status of Women

    18 Mach 2.30-4.30 pm. Online

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  • Marieke Bigg x Caroline Crampton

    24 April 6-8pm

    Dead Ink Bookshop, Liverpool

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  • Burley Fisher: A Scarab Where the Heart Should Be

    11 September 2024, 6.30-9pm. Burley Fisher Books, Dalston

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