'Sue Black's utterly gripping account of her life & career as a professor of anatomy & forensic anthropology.' (Guardian). A fascinating, critically acclaimed mix of science and meditation on death.
Professor Lady Sue Black is one of the world's leading anatomists
and forensic anthropologists. She is President of John's College,
Oxford and previously Pro-Vice Chancellor for Engagement at
Lancaster University . From 2003 to 2018 she was Professor of
Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology at the University of Dundee.
She was the lead anthropologist for the British Forensic Team in
the war crimes investigations in Kosovo, and one of the first
forensic scientists to travel to Thailand following the Indian
Ocean tsunami.
Sue was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire
for services to forensic anthropology and is a Lady of the Most
Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle.
She is the author of the critically acclaimed and award-winning
Sunday Times bestsellers All That Remains and Written in Bone. Her
new book, An Expert Witness- Forensic Science on Trial is published
in 2026.
One might expect [this book] to be a grim read but it absolutely
isn’t. I found it invigorating!
*BBC Radio 4 'Start the Week'*
Black’s utterly gripping account of her life and career as a
professor of anatomy and forensic anthropology manages to be
surprisingly life-affirming. As she herself says, it is “as much
about life as about death”.
*Guardian*
An engrossing memoir ... an affecting mix of the personal and
professional.
*Financial Times*
A model of how to write about the effect of human evil without
losing either objectivity or sensitivity ... Heartening and
anything but morbid... Leaves you thinking about what kind of human
qualities you value, what kinds of people you actually want to be
with.
*New Statesman*
For someone whose job is identifying corpses, Sue Black is a
cheerful soul ... All That Remains feels like every episode of
Silent Witness, pre-fictionalized. Except, you know, really
good.
*The Times*
This fascinating look by a world-leading forensic scientist at what
the dead can tell us is a real eye-opener... Sue Black must be one
of the most unusual people in Britain… extraordinary…part
meditation, part popular science and part memoir...the book offers
a close-up and startlingly clear view of a subject that makes most
of us look away.
*Sunday Times*
The real thing here is not the cause of death, but the nature of
the life. Black is genuinely moving about the respect we should
have for the dead … There is much to admire in this book.
*Scotsman*
Poignant and thoughtprovoking… it is the book’s humanity which will
connect with readers.
*Scottish Daily Mail*
Let [Sue Black] take you by the hand and lead you on a journey
which will inspire your awe and devotion … A wonderful surprise of
a book.
*The Tablet*
Most of us are terrified of death, but Sue Black shows us that
death is in fact a wondrous process, intimately tied with life
itself. Written with warmth and humanity, All That Remains reveals
her life among the dead, who can surely count her as their best
friend.
*Tess Gerritsen*
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