Acknowledgements

Many thanks to: Gus Alvarez and Paul Nash at Rogue Vision, Tony O’Neill, Lisa Cradduck and The Brutalists, Caught By The River, Davey James, Matthew Coleman, Heidi James, Andrew Stevens, Andrew Gallix and all at 3AM Magazine, Paul Ewen, Melissa Mann, Will Hodgkinson, James Sherry, Caffy St Luce, Simon Hargreaves, Mike Frankel, Anthony Luke, Conor McGloin, Graeme Ross, all at Captains Of Industry, Shane Rhodes at Wrecking Ball Press, Martin Roach at IMP, Hardeep Phull, Simon Price, Gillian Porter, Michael Murphy at Max & Co, John Robb, Mark Hodkinson, Mark Fleming and all at Rosie Lees, the Stripes. Thanks also to Paul Baggaley, Sam Humphreys, Kris Doyle and all at Picador / Pan Macmillan. Without knowing them I also extend thanks to Manic Street Preachers: James Dean Bradfield, Sean Moore, Nicky Wire, and also to Martin Hall and Terri Hall and Rachel Edwards and the Edwards family.

Much gratitude and special thanks to my family: Geoff and Dorothy Myers, Kathryn Myers, Noah Myers and Stephen Carney, and to Richard Myers and Patrick Cooper. And also thanks to my agent Simon Benham at Mayer Benham for all the encouragement a writer needs and to Lee Rourke for telling me not to give up.

Extra special love and thanks to Adelle Stripe, who took the rough with the smooth and made it all possible. This is as much her book as anyone’s. It is for her.