For previous acknowledgements see The Truth About Babies (Granta Books, 2002), Ring Road (Fourth Estate, 2004), The Mobile Library: The Case of the Missing Books (Harper Perennial, 2006), The Mobile Library: Mr Dixon Disappears (Harper Perennial, 2006), The Mobile Library: The Delegates’ Choice (Harper Perennial, 2008), The Mobile Library: The Bad Book Affair (Harper Perennial, 2010), Paper: An Elegy (Fourth Estate, 2012), The Norfolk Mystery (Fourth Estate, 2013), Death in Devon (Fourth Estate, 2015). These stand, with exceptions. In addition I would like to thank the following. (The previous terms and conditions apply: some of them are dead; most of them are strangers; the famous are not friends; none of them bears any responsibility.)
Toluwalope Alabi, Hannia Amir, Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, Jennifer Andrews, Sophie Asty, Andreas Avraam, Emma Axelsson, Hugo Ball, Kanika Banwait, Hope Barker, Sarah Batty, Julie Bowen, Monica Boyajiev, Amy Brandis, Benjamin Bryant, Ty Burrell, Sarah Wayne Callies, Cassandra Cooper-Bagnall, Hannah Cooperwaite, Coppi (Belfast), Benjamin Creeth, Thomas Crompton, Owen Davies, Abigail Day, Daniel Day, Will Dove, Melissa Edmunds, Martin Edwards, Laura Elliston, Lorayn Emterby, the English Library (Alassio), Established Coffee (Belfast), James Reese Europe, Rhiannan Falshaw-Skelly, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Scott Flanigan, Hannah Froggatt, Samuel Fry, Pascal Garnier, Nolan Gould, Roseanna Gray, Alice Griggs, Hackney Colliery Band, Nichola Harding, Jamie Hardwick, Zoe Harrington, Eleanor Hastings, Hebe Hewitt, Ellen Hiller, Jaden Hiller, The Hop House (Bangor), Elizabeth Hurst, Sarah Hyland, Alex Jago, Aamir Kapasi, Rebecca Kelley, Samantha Kelly, Ming Yi Koh, Sohini Kumar, Vicky Lai, Emily Lambi, Ellen Lavelle, Anna Lodwick, Jessica Lowe, Mica Lowe, Carmella Lowkis, John Lynas, Nicholas Makinen, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Alick McCallum, Lucy McCarthy, Cathy McKenna, James McKenna, Olivia McNeilis, Annmarie McQueen, Wentworth Miller, Samuel Mitchell, Steven Moore, Abigail Neale, Charlotte Newbury, Yvonne Okey-Udah, Ed O’Neill, Morfudd Owen, Alex Payne, Mrs Peabody, Brogan Pierce, Andrey Platonov, Alexandra Prew, Olive Higgins Prouty, April Roach, Katyana Rocker-Cook, Rico Rodriguez, Kent Russell, Colin Sackett, Joshua Saffold-Geri, Simran Sandhu, Joanne Sarginson, Allegra Scales, Paul Scheuring, Sophia Schoepfer, John Servante, Jimi Sharpe, Alex Smith, Brillia Soh, Maaike Spiekerman, Oliver Stockley, Eric Stonestreet, Mark Storey, Patrick Symmons-Roberts, Hu Ting Tan, David Taylor, Anne-Marie Thomas, Lewis Thomas, Michel Thomas, Josephine Throup, Kate Tolley, Sofía Vergara, Jonella Vidal, Matthew Walpole, Gabriella Watt, Robert W. Weisberg, Ariel Winter, Dahmicca Wright, Cheuk Ling Ann Yip.