Homing (22 page)

All the stories have been re-edited to a greater or lesser degree for this collection.

A great many people have helped me over the years in which these stories were written. There is not enough space to mention every publisher, editor, designer, reader and friend who made
Homing
better, but I am very grateful to you all.

I must thank particularly: my marvellous agent, Isobel Dixon; publisher Frederik de Jager, who has made me feel so welcome at Random House Struik; superb editor Martha Evans; Michiel Botha, for the beautiful cover; William Dicey, for his immaculate page design; publicist Kim Rudman; and the crack team at Umuzi: Fourie Botha and Fahiema Hallam.

I am also indebted to: Turid Wingartz, Eva Papastratis and all at Blake Friedmann Literary,
TV
and Film Agency; Ben Williams and my fellow bloggers at Book SA (
http://book.co.za
); Mervyn Sloman and everyone at the Book Lounge in Cape Town; Ivan Vladislavic´; JM Coetzee; Annari van der Merwe; Robert Plummer; Stephen Watson; Nick and Helen Elam and the Caine Prize for African Writing; South African
PEN
, especially Anthony and Dolores Fleischer and Deborah Horn-Botha; co-Corpsers Diane Awerbuck, Lauren Beukes and Mary Watson; Jean-Baptiste Joly and the staff and fellows of the Akademie Schloss Solitude; Indra Wussow and the kunst: raum Sylt Quelle Foundation; Dan Raymond-Barker of New Internationalist; Stephen Moran of the Willesden Herald; and Simon Goudie and Simon Lewin for their generous hospitality.

Special love and thanks to: