ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book would not have come about without my late parents, Tom Burns and Mabel Marañón; the love of my immediate family, Kidge, Julia, and Miriam; and the enduring hospitality of my brother, Tom, and sister-in-law, Dolores.

Warms thanks too to all those quoted in the book and others who also helped in different ways: Jon Agiriano, Paco Arenosa, Chencho Arias, Patrick Buckley, Emilio Butragueño, José Manuel Delgado, Juan Blas Delgado, Juanjo Diaz, Anna Eizaguirre, Richard Foreman of Chalke Authors, K-tono Frade, Josep Fusté, Jorge Gallardo, Asis Garteiz Gandarias, Bruno Garteiz Gandarias, Regino Garcia-Badell, Rafael Garteiz Gandarias, Alfons Godall, Robert and Concha Graham, Iñigo Gurruchaga, Patrick Harverson, Andrew and Edwina Haynes, Jon Holmes, Graham Hunter, Pere Jansa, Jon Juaristi, Simon Kuper, Iñigo Lizarralde, Fidel Lopez Alvarez, Marjolijn van der Meer, Juan Milagro, Jose-Maria Minguella, Javi Navarro, Peter Nicholson, Carlos Oppe, Alice Owen, Philip Paddack, Chus Pereda, Sol Perez de Guzman, Frank Porral, Eduardo Prim, Luis Fernando Rojo, Jose Angel Sanchez, Ulises Sanchez Flor, Manolo Sanchis, Cuqui Sarrias, Santiago Segurola, Henk Spaan, Orfeo Suarez, Jose Miguel Tere, Carlos Tusquets, Carlos Uribe, Jorge Valdano, David White, Edwin Winkels, David Winner, and Paddy Woodworth. Gracias tambien to Annabel Merullo and team at PFD, Mike Jones and team at S&S, and Carl Bromley and team at Nation Books in the United States who made it all look better.