Professor Jean Duffy of Edinburgh University is one of the major Butor scholars – her work Signs and Designs: Art and Architecture in the Work of MB (Liverpool: Liverpool UP, 2003) in particular has been invaluable to me. Her website, which has just been substantially updated, redesigned and relaunched, provides ‘a research and reference apparatus which will assist orientation within Butor’s vast oeuvre’. It most certainly will. My gratitude to Professor Duffy