Bøger af Duncan Lyon

Sand Paper Stone is the story of a British man from Liverpool living in London where he works in a decent job, with good friends from different backgrounds, yet as a muslim convert and with a landmark moment in his life approaching he finds himself compelled to embark on his pilgrimage to Mecca.  Despite encountering obstacles at the consulate in London and also on arrival at Jeddah he is taken in as a ‘wayfarer’ by a large extended family who assist in instructing him in the rituals and requirements of attendance at Islam’s holiest shrine and watch on at his astonishment at the scenes that they witness together.  However, just at the moment when he begins to come close to realising the spiritual ambitions of his journey, the practicalities of life invade the peace in the form of what seems petty officialdom and he finds himself launched into a bureaucratic maze, at first trapped in baffling meetings with lofty government ministers and lethargic administrators before finally running alone in the night through an empty terminal onto a runway looking for a plane to Geneva.

Why are men on Merseyside going up on rooftops? One at a time, with no apparent connection between one another, up they climb. A man called McKelnikov sets out in search of answers but he is presented with more questions: what has this to do with pirate ships and the Middle Passage, Goldilocks and the Three Bears, The Beat Generation and Elvis? A present-day novel based in post-colonial, post-Merseybeat, post-Brexit Liverpool, Duncan Lyon searches out a cast of characters on the brink of discovering their own beautifully brutal truths and while the world looks elsewhere a city and its people are going literally "up the wall". When did it start? On whose orders? On whose command? And where is it supposed to end? What are they looking for and what do they find? Why isn't it happening anywhere else yet?