Stephen Bernard

"[2] His memoir about the sustained serial, clerical childhood sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton in the 1980s and 90s, his consequent mental illness, and the pioneering experimental psychiatric ketamine treatment he has received was a book of the year in the New Statesman and Evening Standard.

[13] In 2018, he published Paper Cuts, a memoir (London: Jonathan Cape, 2018),[14][15] which revealed that he had been the victim of sustained serial, clerical sexual abuse as a child, which had caused him severe mental illness which was treated with experimental ketamine infusions.

After a campaign by Bernard's abuser's last surviving relative, Deidre McCormack,[16] Canon Dermod Fogarty's headstone and memorial were destroyed with the consent of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arundel and Brighton on 24 May 2018.

[19] Bernard specialises in the History of the Book and was awarded research fellowships at the William Andrews Clarke Memorial Library, UCLA, the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, and the Katharine F. Pantzer Research Fellowship by the Bibliographical Society.

He also works on legal and financial records concerning booksellers, including, for example, The Letters of Jacob Tonson in Bodleian MS. Eng.