The review from Gastroenterology sums up the appeal of this book: "More than any other text in liver diseases, this one provides the best source of synthesised clinical wisdom, a currency in ever increasingly short supply as our fund of factual knowledge burgeons. Indeed, if one demanded that an author confine the breadth of our knowledge in liver disease into a readable clinical textbook of less than 700 pages, he or she could do no better than to direct that individual to Sherlock and Dooley's Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System." This brand-new edition of this classic textbook, now named Sherlock's Diseases of the Liver and Biliary System, after the late Professor Dame Sheila Sherlock, provides clinical guidance from the leading experts in the field. Following Sheila Sherlock's death and the move to an edited, as opposed to an authored book, the 4 editors have been extremely careful to maintain the Sherlock writing style in the new edition. Where other textbooks are multi volume, very verbose, and attempt to contain both a basic science and clinical approach, this book offers the reader the best purely clinical textbook available.  It is extremely concise and to the point, very accessible, excellently illustrated, and has a well-presented approach to each disease which has always been the hallmark of this book.  In addition, the excellent illustrations - another hallmark feature of this book - have also been retained.  There will be 680 illustrations, which will also be available electronically via a companion website published with the print book.