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Helen MacDonald discusses Bradley's historical novel about dissection, The Resurrectionist, and her own non-fiction work on the same historical subject, Human Remains : Episodes in Human Dissection (Melbourne University Press, 2005), in light of the current interest in literary non-fiction and the arguments for and against history being presented by historians or novelists.