Dr Richard Shillitoe spent his working life in the NHS. His publications include Ithell Colquhoun: Magician Born of Nature (2010); Colquhoun's previously unpublished novel I Saw Water (in conjunction with Mark Morrisson, 2014); a new, illustrated edition of her first novel Goose of Hermogenes (2018); Medea's Charms, a volume of her selected shorter writing (2019) and Desination Limbo, her third and final novel in 2020.
He contributed the introductory essay for the recently published The Taro as Colour (2022), the much-acclaimed pack of Colquhoun's Tarot designs.