25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know is a book on contract bridge

Contract bridge

Contract bridge, usually known simply as bridge, is a trick-taking card game using a standard deck of 52 playing cards played by four players in two competing partnerships with partners sitting opposite each other around a small table...

 co-written by Canadian teacher and author Barbara Seagram

Barbara Seagram

Barbara Seagram is a Canadian bridge teacher, author and administrator. In addition to being recognized for her professional bridge teaching business and as co-author of seventeen bridge books, she is most widely known for co-writing 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, which received the...

 and British player and author Marc Smith

Marc Smith (bridge)

Marc Smith is a British bridge player, columnist and book author. Marc Smith represented Great Britain as a junior, winning the 1985 European Union Junior Teams Championship. He has a host of wins in national events, and reached the final of the World Mixed Pairs Championship playing with his...

. It was published by Master Point Press

Master Point Press

Master Point Press is a Canadian book publishing company located in Toronto, Canada. It grew out of Canadian Master Point magazine , which was published by Ray and Linda Lee. The company began publishing books in 1994...

in 1999.

The book is aimed at beginners, with each chapter outlining a single convention, including takeout doubles, negative doubles, and cuebid raises. Most chapters are followed by a quiz.

Since its publication, the book has sold over 100,000 copies, and won the American Bridge Teachers' Association's Book of the Year (Student) award. It has also been translated into French, Japanese and German.