This brief book, billed by the publisher as ‘specially of interest to the fresh undergraduate students and young researchers planning to take up work in the field of thermoluminescence’ is long on theory and very short on applications. The organisation of the book is quite good. The first of its seven chapters is a brief history and includes a quite readable albeit elementary and somewhat brief overview of different types of luminescence. Perhaps somewhat disappointingly, only eight sentences are devoted to triboluminescence, a rather meagre consideration of this topic in view of its potential importance in practical low-level dosimetry applications. The next chapter deals with the thermoluminescence phenomenon itself, briefly considering crystalline structure defect centres, and provides a brief and indeed somewhat superficial overview of the interactions with ionising radiations. The remaining five chapters constitute the heart of the book; Chapter 3, entitled ‘Thermal Stimulation of Luminescence and Theory of the Glow Curve’, is particularly well done and includes some knowledgeable insights of the author. This chapter begins with consideration of glow curve theory, including various models of thermoluminescence, and progresses to a well done discussion of glow curve kinetics and analysis. Chapter 4, ‘Kinetics Analysis of TL Glow Curves’ provides a particularly good discussion of the limitations of general and mixed-order kinetics models, succinctly summarising five separate methods of glow curve analysis along with a brief discussion of the merits and problems of each, and includes a section on precautions and uncertainties in glow curve analysis. A unique feature is the author's derivation of a model to describe the TL intensity response curve, and the development of factors to relate supralinearity and predose sensitisation. Chapter 5 is wholly devoted to a discussion of the quasi-equilibrium (QE) problem in TL showing how various parameters affect the QE. It takes issue with the generally accepted conclusion that QE conditions are only satisfied when the recombination rate exceeds the retrapping rate during glow curve recording and shows the dependence of QE on the heating rate.