Alan Baddeley's delightful new book is another in the series “Cognitive Psychology: A Modular Course” and as such its purpose is to bring together research relevant to the topic of memory in a format that can be easily understood by undergraduate psychology students. It certainly achieves this aim, but will also be of interest to a wide range of readers, from the interested layperson to the experienced psychologist. Memory holds an important place in everyone's lives, and readers on the far side of middle-age may find this book particularly pertinent, and in most cases reassuring! Academic and professional psychologists from many different subdisciplines will find this an easy book to refer to when they want to refresh or update their memory about one or other aspect of memory. Likewise researchers and professionals from other disciplines such as neuroscience or medicine will find this book a gold-mine of information, both academic and practical.