Too often Guillaume Farel (1489–1565) has been depicted as ‘just’ the older colleague of John Calvin and as a man with a not too easy character. The authors of this book adjust this picture of this important first-generation French-speaking Reformer and add the evidence for this by supplying translations of a number of Farel's key texts. The book is divided into two parts. The first describes Farel's life and his early thought in four chapters: ‘Guillaume Farel in early French reform’; ‘Farel's Summaire: theology in early French reform’; ‘Farel's upward spirituality: leading in prayer’; and ‘Farel's upward spirituality: unceasing prayer: (1529–1545)’. Educated in Paris, Farel slowly began to question Catholic orthodoxy, and by the 1520s was an active Protestant preacher, resulting in his exile to Switzerland. After having convinced the Genevans that they should side with the Reformation, he in 1536 persuaded John Calvin to stay and put the decision to reform into practice. The second part of the book contains translations of key texts from Farel's works: The Lord's Prayer and the Apostles' Creed (1524); Summary and brief exposition (1529/34); ‘The reason for which this work was written and had to be revised and why it was lengthened’ (appended to the 1542 edition of the Summaire); and Liturgical practices and forms (1533). This means that Zuidema and Van Raalte's book brings us some of the first full-length translations of Farel's work in English. The second part of the book, in particular, is a real contribution to research and teaching, but the volume as a whole contributes to a better understanding of the Reformation in French-speaking Switzerland.