I’d like to thank: Jake Lingwood (sorry it’s not a novel), all the reps at Ebury (G.T.Y.M.A.S!), Stina Smemo, Hannah Telfer, Claire Kingston, (not the) Ken Barlow and Dave Breen. Rob Aslett and all at Avalon, especially Alex Godden and Dan Lloyd. Simon Streeting for intercontinental help and wisdom, Matt Welton for advice, guidance, encouragement and constancy, Geoff Lloyd and Chris Maher for being wrong over a curry but so, so right about so many other things in life and Simon Singh for lending me some of his precision.
For taking a leap of faith, my thanks go to Susan Provan, Fiona Pride, Rebecca Austin and all at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. For making me so welcome: everyone at the Sydney Opera House Studio Theatre and the George Square Theatre, Edinburgh. Julie James and Dan Cutforth, Eillen Sellam, and the Butterworth clan, likewise. Thanks to Lib Williams, Katrina Mathers, Jon Primrose and Rupert ‘Two Pint’ Potts too.
But most importantly, for agreeing to meet and help a stranger, my gratitude and undying admiration goes out to all the googlewhacks I met along the way.
I didn’t invent googlewhacking. Gary Stock did. If you find a googlewhack, why not visit googlewhack.com and leave it in the Whack Stack.