This book provides a short introduction to anatomy aimed at undergraduate medical students and revising foundation doctors. The text is concise and well-written. The cadaveric dissections are superb (many by Bari Logan) and beautifully photographed (by Adrian Newman), although the initial line drawings depicting anatomical parts, planes and (especially rotational) movements are sometimes ambiguous (a lost opportunity to correct the original diagrams, lifted from McMinn’s 1995 atlas), and the full skeleton and upper limb photographs are too crowded and fussy. The bones of the wrist, especially, are almost obscured by the labelling. Each photograph is accompanied by a set of orientating arrows, and, for good measure, the legend parenthetically adds the direction from which the specimen is viewed. This belt-and-braces approach should prevent any confusion over specimen orientation on the part of the reader. The format of each double page spread is to restrict descriptive text to two columns on the left hand page and photographs and keys to the right hand page. This should work very well for the revising student, avoiding the thumbing backwards and forwards to find a relevant diagram (common in larger volume anatomy texts), and each double page provides a well circumscribed section of anatomy for a revision session. The layout also facilitates self-testing, although it would have been better to organize the numbers labelling different structures so that they could be visually scanned in an orderly fashion within each figure; as it is, time is wasted and interest may be lost when trying to locate consecutive numbers. The admirably brief and concise descriptions contain text which is all at once emboldened, coloured and numbered where this links to the illustrations. Paragraphs of clinical notes are interpolated into the text in a different font and indicated by a pointing hand icon. These notes provide background and colour, but, rather than the common convention of being boxed separately, usually run directly on from the descriptive text, and this often breaks up any narrative and makes reading less easy. The book is divided into nine colour-coded parts corresponding to conventional regions of the body, with a consecutive numbering of further subdivisions throughout these parts. The pages constituting Part IV – The Thorax, for example, sport a turquoise banner and include subdivisions 26–35, of which 29 is the Diaphragm. In summary, this book is about as reasonable a condensation of basic anatomy for undergraduate medical studies as might be accommodated within 186 slightly-less-than-A4 pages. It has a particular layout that facilitates learning and revision and, on the whole, very good representations of the human body. The text is pithy and to the point, interspersed with occasional clinical allusions.