- Published: 20 September 2022
- ISBN: 9781405947107
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $30.00
The Seven Ages of Death
'Every chapter is like a detective story' Telegraph











- Published: 20 September 2022
- ISBN: 9781405947107
- Imprint: Michael Joseph
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 400
- RRP: $30.00
Praise for Dr Richard Shepherd
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Heart-wrenchingly honest
Sue Black, author of All That Remains
One of the most fascinating books I have read in a long time. Engrossing, a haunting page-turner. A book I could not put down
The Times
Gripping, grimly fascinating, and I suspect I'll read it at least twice
Evening Standard
A deeply mesmerising memoir of forensic pathology. Human and fascinating
Nigella Lawson
An absolutely brilliant book. I really recommend it, I don't often say that but it's fascinating
Jeremy Vine, BBC Radio 2
Puts the reader at his elbow as he wields the scalpel
The Guardian
Fascinating, insightful, candid, compassionate
Observer
Deeply insightful . . . Shepherd is unflinching in his self-dissection
The Times
Fascinating
Daily Express
Fascinating. He has the ability to examine himself and other people with the same forensic eye that he applies to corpses - one of the reasons why his books feel so life-enhancing
Daily Telegraph
Enlightening, strangely uplifting . . . Shepherd's final chapter on death itself is a meditation of great beauty and light which puts all the darkness of the previous pages into perspective
Daily Mail
Each chapter is like a finely crafted detective story in which he expands on the causes of death as revealed by the post mortem, or the hidden reasons that precipitated it. Some are ordinary, others extraordinary. Shepherd writes beautifully, and despite its subject, the book is very funny in parts
Daily Telegraph
Heart-wrenchingly honest
Mail Online