“On finance: Matthew Fosh, Glenn Grover, Will Hutton, John Reynolds, Paul Ruddock. On Internet 'reality' games: Tim Guest, in person, and his book Second Lives (Vintage). On teaching: Sabrina Broadbent, Tabitha Jay, Rebecca Terry and colleagues. On football: Giles Smith; Roy Hodgson and Jaki Stockley at Fulham FC. On the London Underground: Andy Daugherty, Ben Pennington, Donna Sarjant, Albanne Spyrou. On music, Internet and other matters: my children, William, Holly and Arthur. Also, merci to J...ill Lewis.Particular thanks on finance to Kevin Davis, a friend for over thirty years, from the Lower Fifth to the Upper West Side; and to Dr Duncan Hunter, for his patience with a frequently slow pupil. Any errors or inconsistencies of fact in the financial or other detail are entirely my responsibility.Thanks also to my wife, Veronica, for literary and many other kindnesses.Quotations from the Koran are from the Penguin edition, translated by N. J. Dawood. Milestones by Sayyid Qutb, referred to in the novel, is published by Islamic Book Service; I am also indebted to The Crisis of Islam by Bernard Lewis (Phoenix).MoreLessRead More Read Less
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