In this brief booklet Pearce examines some of the current attitudes and fashions within the growing world of ‘spirituality’. Written from an Anglican perspective, the booklet criticises much of the contemporary scene which attempts to provide shortcuts and easy answers to the issues of spirituality. Setting out a list of guidelines by which any spiritual life must be checked, Pearce not only negatively attacks certain strands of church life, but also brings in a positive note by emphasising some of the benefits of what have come to be regarded as ‘non-evangelical’ routes in spirituality. These include fasting, silence, liturgy and spiritual direction. Such a short work can only provide an outline, but it is a shame that more detailed analysis is not given of why, for example, liturgy has been abandoned. Such investigation may provide us with more creative and intelligent ways by which liturgy can be re-introduced. Nevertheless, a helpful corrective in what is becoming an all too confusing subject area in the church.