This is a new comprehensive text covering upper gastrointestinal surgery other than HPB but also includes the small intestine which is a frequently forgotten part of the gastrointestinal tract coming as it does between the colorectal and upper gastrointestinal surgeons. It is an extremely comprehensive and inclusive textbook which is both its strength and in other senses its weakness. There is no real subject in the oesophagus, stomach, duodenum, and small bowel which is not covered to some degree within the text. In such a large text however the up to date nature of chapters varies with the bibliography, in some cases being up to the late 1990s but in others being really the …