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.
"""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"