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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.

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"""Duncan Lyon has a way with words. They dance easily across the page but every now and again they spin around and take your mind in a different direction. Lyon knows how to tell a story, too. As the words flow, he gently lifts his reader up and leads us down a long and winding road from Liverpool to Mecca. But no sooner do we arrive than thoughts turn to the journey home. We all make it back, of course. But none of us, not Duncan Lyon, not his narrator Abdur-rahim, nor us readers, will ever be the same again."" -Stuart Borthwick, author of Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks and the Story of Reggae"

"""Duncan Lyon has a way with words. They dance easily across the page but every now and again they spin around and take your mind in a different direction. Lyon knows how to tell a story, too. As the words flow, he gently lifts his reader up and leads us down a long and winding road from Liverpool to Mecca. But no sooner do we arrive than thoughts turn to the journey home. We all make it back, of course. But none of us, not Duncan Lyon, not his narrator Abdur-rahim, nor us readers, will ever be the same again."" --Stuart Borthwick, author of Positive Vibrations: Politics, Politricks and the Story of Reggae"

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Raised on a council estate in Anfield, Liverpool up until the mid eighties and educated at Liverpool College, Duncan went on to study Economics in Manchester and worked in recruitment and food distribution in London, mainland Europe and large parts of the Middle East.  He has since returned home to Liverpool where he writes books and plays and assists with festival events in the city such as Africa Oye, The World Transformed and Writing on the Wall.  

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