With the start of volume 18, our second as editors of the journal, we are joined as newly-appointed Review Editors by Miriam Bernard and Judith Phillips.

Tony Warnes became review editor in 1987 and, by our calculation, he has ‘put to bed’ 46 sets of abstracts and reviews, concluding with those that appeared in the last edition. Tony has made a major contribution to the development of the journal over the past decade. Several hundred books have passed through his hands and, as a result, the review pages have become an invaluable resource for those coming to gerontology, either as students, postgraduate researchers or from other disciplines. He has located reviewers working in many different settings – both on the geographical and the disciplinary maps. In this way the international gerontological network has been greatly enhanced. Many of those who have written reviews will have benefited from his astute and encouraging editorship.