THANKS AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

More than usual, this book has proved to be a long and sometimes difficult haul to the finish line; thanks and love to Carolyn and Milan for putting up with the more difficult bits!

Richey Edwards is a subject that some potential interviewees naturally shied away from, so heartfelt thanks to the friends and colleagues who agreed to talk on the record (and to those who wished to remain anonymous): Stephen Gatehouse, Dr Eleanor Breuning, Tony van den Ende, Becky Rigby, John Robb, Paul Lester, Kevin Cummins, DCI Andrew Davies, Ria Gibbs and Sally Killian.

Sara Hawys Roberts always provided helpful advice, and throughout my research many others oiled wheels and provided contacts, including Rowland Williams, Jill Lewis, Jackie Evans, Ross Miller at the Missing People charity, Bernadette Ford, Ed Stearns, Graham Palmer, Leon Machen, Kelley Wise, Mark Hunter and Stuart Wilks. Thanks also to Liz Gould, Martin Hall and Terri Hall at Hall Or Nothing for relaying messages back and forth.

At Orion Books I would like to thank Ian Preece, Jane Sturrock, Angela McMahon, Lucie Stericker, Rabab Adams, Stephen Fall and everyone else involved in getting this book into your hands.

Finally, I never realised what use having an agent would be until I actually got one. Many thanks to Tim Bates and all at Pollinger for their help and guidance on this project.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books read for background information and used in the preparation of this manuscript:

Martin Clarke, Manic Street Preachers: Sweet Venom (Plexus, London, 1997)

John Davies, A History of Wales (Penguin, London, 2007)

Wallace Fowtie, Rimbaud and Jim Morrison (Souvenir Press, London, 1995)

Ian Hamilton, In Search of J. D. Salinger (Random House, New York, 1988)

Ronald Hayman, The Death and Life of Sylvia Plath (Wtlliam Heinemann Ltd, London, 1991)

Michael Heatley, Manic Street Preachers: in Their Own Words (Omnibus Press, London, 1998)

Steve Lamacq, Going Deaf for a living (BBC, London, 2000)

Duncan MacLaughlin with William Hall, Dead Lucky ? Lord Lucan: The Final Truth (John Blake, London, 2003)

Aubrey Malone, Literary Trivia (Prion, London, 1999)

Mick Middles, Manic Street Preachers (Omnibus Press, London, 1999)

Andrew O'Hagan, The Missing (Picador, London, 1995)

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (Faber, London, 2003)

Simon Price, Everything (A Book About Manic Street Preachers) (Virgin, London, 1999)

James Reidel, Vanished Act: The Lift and Art of Weldon Kees (Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2003) Graham Robb, Rimbaud: A Biography (Picador, London, 2000)

Christopher Ross, Mishima's Sword: Travels in Search of a Samurai Legend (Fourth Estate, London, 2006) Ewart Smith, Blackwood Yesterday (Old Bakehouse Publications, Abertillery, 1991)

Jennifer Watkins-lsnardi, In the Beginning (Blake, London, 2000)

David Williams, The Rebecca Riots (Arrowsmith, Bristol, 1986)

Books on the Richey Edwards reading list:

(listed with the date and publisher of the version I held a copy of)

James Baldwin, Another Country (Penguin, London, 2001)

James Baldwin, Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin, London, 2001)

J. G. Ballard, Crash (Vintage, Londofi, 1995)
Brendan Behan, Borstal Boy (Corgi London, 1975)

William Burroughs, Junky (Penguin, London, 1977)

Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness (Penguin, London, 1989)

Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (Vintage, london, 1993)

Bret Easton Ellis, Less Than Zero (Pikador, London, 1986)

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Men (Penguin, London, 1965)

Jean Genet, Miracle Of the Rose (Castle Books, New Jersey, 1965)

Joseph Heller, Catch 22 (Vintage, London, 2005)

Masuji Ibuse, Black Rain (Kodansha, Tokyo, 1979)

Franz Kafka, Metamorphosis and Other Stories (Vintage, London, 2005)

Franz Kafka, The Trial (Vintage, London, 42005)

Yukio Mishima, The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Vintage London, 2001)

Hubert Srlby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn (Flamingo, London, 1993)

William Wharton, Birdy (Tht Leisure Circle, London, 1978)

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