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Book Reviews theoretical critiques (e.g., Shipstead, Redick, & Engle, 2012) and meta-analytic reviews (Melby-Lervag & Hulme, 2013) both challenging simplistic views of the utility of such interventions. Overall, Understanding Working Memory provides a readable, general introduction to the nature of working memory and its hypothesised impact upon several common developmental disorders. Associate Professor Tim Hannan School of Psychology, Charles Sturt University, Australia References Melby-Lervag ˚ , M., & Hulme, C. (2013). Is working memory training effective? A meta-analytic review. Developmental Psychology, 49, 270–291. doi:10.1037/a0028228. Packiam Alloway, T. (2010). Understanding working memory: Supporting students’ learning.London: Sage. Shipstead, Z., Redick, T.S., & Engle, R.W. (2012). Is working memory training effective? Psychological Bulletin, 138, 628–654. Edited by Paul Holmes and Steve Farnfield Routledge, 2014, $127.85 (AU paperback), ISBN: 9781138016728 doi:10.1017/edp.2015.13 These three volumes on attachment from Holmes and Farnfield offer a major new synthesis of information and resources applicable to both research and clinical prac- tice. Holmes and Farnfield edit, organise, and collate recent developments from a substantial group of scientific practitioners from this field, based mainly in the United Kingdom and Europe. Attachment literature has been subject to frequent academic reflection and debate since the 1960s. However, from a practitioner perspective,