This book is a very welcome addition to the literature on seventeenth-century journalism. Its primary aim is to rehabilitate the corantos and foreign news pamphlets which transformed English print culture in the 1620s and suggest that, with their own formats, editorial styles and distribution networks, they were much more than either insipid versions of the period's manuscript newsletters or wearying forerunners of the revolutionary newsbooks of the English civil war. Boys makes this argument work over the course of nine densely footnoted chapters grouped into three parts: ‘The press and the trade’; ‘News, editors and readers’; and ‘News and its political implications’. Her central contention – that the Thirty Years War invigorated pre-existing pan-European news networks and that the movement to print helped to further professionalise those networks – is entirely convincing Her discussion of the printing of verbatim translations of Dutch news in London in particular does much, too, to problematise an influential preconception that English corantos were heavily censored. The book comes alive with its excavation of the personalities behind these anonymised or pseudonymised productions: the section on Charles i's news licenser, the German poet Georg Weckherlin, and his complex relationships with publishers and politicians of the period is especially rewarding. If this study has a hero, though, it is the London news publisher Nathaniel Butter whom we first see intriguing to establish a syndicate for the foreign news market in London, then being mocked by dramatists such as Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton at the peak of his powers, and finally striving to make foreign news saleable once the blocks on domestic news reporting were removed in the early 1640s. Boys goes into some detail to demonstrate how Butter's pamphlets and working practices enabled a later generation of news-writers such as John Dillingham, editor-publisher of the extremely successful Moderate Intelligencer, to make foreign news saleable to an English audience preoccupied by revolt at home. If there are repeated moments in this study where the sheer volume of detail threatens to overwhelm the overarching narrative, the separate ‘conclusions’ to each chapter do much to bring the bigger picture back into focus. This is a meticulously researched book which greatly enhances our understanding of early modern news culture.