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, 2007), 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 (2013), Death in Devon (2015) and Westmorland Alone (2016). 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.)
Stig Abell, Roger Ashton-Griffiths, A-Wa, T.J. Binyon, Valerie Bistany, Susan J. Blackmore, Adrian Bliss, Ernest Bramah, Eoin Butler, Peter Buwalda, Cafe Zédel, Mark Campbell, Maria Alessandra Chessa, Pema Chödrön, Agatha Christie, Coey and Johnstone, John Curran, Gerald Dawe, Meaghan Delahunt, Dublin City Library Service, Jean Echenoz, the English Library (Alassio), Scott Flannigan, Lettice Franklin, Pascal Garnier, Hugh Haughton, Margaret Hayes, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Hamid Ismailov, Darryl Jones, Anne-Marie Kelly, Herman Koch, Mark Lauren, Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mike McCormack, Conor McGregor, Cathy McKenna, Duncan Minshall, Chris Morash, Scholastique Mukasonga, Jenny Offill, Judge Eugene O’Sullivan, Eve Patten, Mrs Peabody, Richard Powers, Hilary Putnam, Colin Sackett, Judith Schalansky, Yakob Shabtai, Akhil Sharma, Alessandro Silvestri, Nina Simone, Patti Smith, Gary Snyder, Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Stormzy, Brendan Teeling, Yann Tiersen, Daniel Todman, Miriam Toews, Iglika Vassileva, Juan Pablo Villalobos.