The weak hydrogen bond in structural chemistry and biology. By Gautam R. Desiraju and Thomas Steiner. IUCr Monographs on Crystallography, Vol. 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press/International Union of Crystallography, 1999, pp. xiv + 507. Price £85.00. ISBN 0-19-850252-4.

A review of this book, by G. A. Jeffrey, has been published in the April 2000 issue of Acta Cryst. Section B, pages 333–334.