As noted in the acknowledgements, this book is the product of many years of collaboration between two of the most respected and prolific scholars of Anglo-Latin literature: Michael Winterbottom and Michael Lapidge. It appropriately marks the end of their life-long project to make the Latin literary (and especially hagiographical) monuments of later Anglo-Saxon England available in modern scholarly editions. As such, it complements the earlier editions of Wulfstan Cantor's Life of St Æthelwold (by Lapidge and Winterbottom) and Byrhtferth of Ramsey's Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine (by Lapidge), not to mention Lapidge's own monumental Cult of Saint Swithun (Oxford 2003). The present volume is a worthy successor to these works: it is a marked improvement on all previous editions of the texts in question, B.'s Life of St Dunstan and Adelard of Gent's Lections on the deposition of St Dunstan, and for the first time makes these available with full facing-page translation. The edition and translation read well and are a credit both to the editors and to the Oxford Medieval Texts series. Perhaps more important, however, the edition provides extremely detailed notes and discussion which serve to contextualise this material: as the lengthy introduction and footnotes demonstrate, no stone has been left unturned, a fact which will make this book required reading for anyone interested in later Anglo-Saxon England. The present reviewer was particularly impressed by the discussion of Dunstan's career, which is the most detailed and up-to-date available. Similarly helpful are sections on the lives, times and literary styles of B. and Adelard (though slightly more might have been said about the latter, who clearly did not catch the editors’ attention to the same degree). There are, however, a few points on which the editors’ judgement might be queried. Thus, for example, their conviction that the ages of ordination set out in canonical texts can be used to reconstruct the careers of figures such as Dunstan and Æthelwold (pp. xvii–xviii) begs the question of whether these regulations were followed so meticulously in pre-reform England; certainly on the continent they were treated more like guidelines than rules, as the appointment of Otto iii's chaplain Bruno as Pope Gregory v at the age of twenty-four demonstrates. Similarly questionable is the insistence that Dunstan cannot have been appointed ‘bishop without portfolio’ in the first instance, given that both B. and charter attestations seem to suggest precisely this (pp. xxxv–xxxvi); again, were canonical regulations really so stringently observed so as to have prevented this? Still, these are but minor quibbles and do not in any way detract from the achievement marked by this volume: it is a truly remarkable piece of scholarship for which historians and literary critics alike will be grateful to its editors for many years to come.