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) and Paper: An Elegy (Fourth Estate, 2012). 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.)
Chris Adrian, Jacob Andrews, Neil Armstrong, Johan Philip ‘Pilou’ Asbæk, Michael Askew, Kim Ayres, Gerald Barry, Amy Baumhoefner, Maurice Blanchot, Hannah Britton, John Buchan, Lewis Buzbee, Frank Carson, Alessandra Chessa, the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, E.M. Cioran, Enna Coates, Bill Coles, Richard Coles, Friedl Dicker, John Doherty, Katie Dudwell, Michael Fassbender, Festival Intercelticu d’Avilés, John Paul Flintoff, Alex Fusco, David Gallacher, Ben Galley, Juliet Gardiner, Nicholas Gardiner, The Great British Bake Off, Sarah Goodman, Walter Gropius, Woody Guthrie, Michael Haneke, Rachel Hard, Robyn Hardman, Daniel Harlow, Devon Hazel, Sheema Hossain, Michel Houellebecq, the Irish Writers’ Centre, Johannes Itten, Lars Iyer, Kirsty Judge, Helen Kalpus, Buster Keaton, Tim Key, Paul Klee, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Wyndham Lewis, Craig Leyenaar, Naomi Linehan, Morag Lyall, Rachel P. Maines, Wing Mak, Neil Martin, Georgia Mason, Hugh Massingberd, Helen May, Eleanor McDowall, Frank McNally, Dahler Mehndi, László Moholy-Nagy, Montague Bikes, Ruth Morgan, Johnny Muir, Brain Mullen, Nesco, Kathleen Normington, Ana Oliveira, Richard Owens Opticians, Tommy Peoples, Daniel Piper, Adrian Power, Adam Price, Ross Raisin, Sharon Rankin, Rachel Raymond, Olly Rowse, Steve Rudd, Nathalie Sarraute, Elaine Scarry, Oskar Schlemmer, Maurice Sendak, Elif Shafak, Robert B. Silvers, Emily Simpson, Kimberley Simpson, Josef Škvorecký, Aaron Smith, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Saviana Stenescu, Rudolf Steiner, the staff of Strathearn School, Florence Sunnen, Josh Suntharasivam, Fritz Tschaschnig, Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky, Jo Walker, the Warwick Writing Programme, Waitrose (Kenilworth), Jason Weiss, Emily Wells, John Wesley, the Wigtown Book Festival, Robyn Williamson, Timothy Woodham, Irvin B. Yalom, Behn Zeitlin