Bøker av Paul Lyons

A DYSLEXIC CHILD DISCOVERS DANTE'S 'INFERNO' AND SAVES HER DYSFUNCTIONAL FATHER. '... The hilarious Men Going Their Own Way classic...' by Paul Lyons, winner of a London Times Book of the Year Award and a New Writer's Fellowship from the Australian Literature Board. 'There's more to love than a womb and two jugs.' Paul Piles, Australian shaman, eco-warrior and anti-psychiatry campaigner sets out to prove the primacy of male love. Abducting his newborn baby's a bad start. The Warrior Path takes them to a shoot-out in a Tibetan monastery. There's more sensible ways of supporting your family than stealing a billionaire's yacht. By the time his daughter turns thirteen Paul's just another semi-absentee father and Jelly's in a special needs school with behavioural problems. Paul's crusade has ended in failure until, that is, his dyslexic daughter's chance discovery of Dante's 'Inferno' reveals hidden mnemonic powers that could prove to be her salvation, unless her newfound brilliance finally tips her over the edge. Paul's fifteen-year exile from Australia ends abruptly with a phone call that his mother's dying. He's finally flying home, banned from the house, his father's curse upon his head, taking Jelly with him. Abducting her a second time? Or will his daughter prove to be Paul's Guide on his final journey into Hell? 95,000 words.

Is the beautiful Thai woman Jim meets on a freezing sidewalk a heartless home-wrecker or She Who Is Outside The Universe And Goes Upwards? Or both? The harsh realities of the London sex trade are light years distant from the esoteric doctrine of Shakti and the sexual path to Transcendence, but this is the gulf Jim and Nam Huan must cross if they are to know what love has in store for them. On the way they encounter human goodness in the shape of Cyril Wainright, the traffickers' enforcer, and evil in the form of Adrian Whitely, procurer of girls for the dealers attending the London International Arms Fair. When a post-Fair sex party goes disastrously wrong, Jim and Nam Huan are on their own, outside everything at last, in flight for their lives, and only the ancient magic can perhaps save them. Paul Lyons won a London Times Book of the Year Award for his first novel, 'The Eden Man', and received a New Writer's Fellowship from the Australian Literature Board.

It's the morning of Des's wedding in a village in the mountains of Northern Thailand. Oy looks ravishing in her traditional Thai sheath but Des feels a bit uncomfortable in his Yul Brynner sash, rope crown and tonne bag pants.When you marry a working girl, even one as big-hearted and lovely as Oy, she's bound to bring a bit of baggage from her past. Romford Sauna in particular. More especially Lucky the Turk, the bastard boss of Romford Sauna.Big Des isn't complaining. He's got baggage of his own, a philandering father, an alcoholic mother, his brilliant daughter having a nervous breakdown in Oxford, a coke-head son. It still would have been nice if any of them had bothered to turn up, but. They had invitations. He's on his own with three hundred partying Thais. It's his wedding morning and not even his best mate Tony has shown his face, but Tony's sure to be here, he's smuggling the last of Des's money- from the sale of his truck- into the country, and Tony's never let him down yet. Paul Lyons' first novel, 'The Eden Man' won a London Times Book of the Year Award. The Guardian said 'The Eden Man' was 'sure not to be a one hit wonder' and praised its 'laugh-out-loud humour.' Paul Lyons received a New Writer's Fellowship from the Australian Literature Board.

Four voices:An autistic boy at puberty.His 'refrigerator' mother who blames herself for his autism.His psychotherapist father, frustrated with his job as a prison doctor.The paedophile child killer whose greatest crime is in his mind.Four voices weaving a story at the boundary between language and transcendence. The story of 'Eddy And The Fiend' takes place in a country town in NSW, home to a maximum security prison. It's the early nineteen-nineties, the forced holding 'cure' for autism is in vogue and Laingian 'anti-psychiatry' still popular.Eddy's chance encounter with a psychopathic child killer who's being brought to the prison occurs at the moment when the awakening of his interest in girls brings the conflict caused by his autism within his family to crisis point.Eddy's Asperger Syndrome 'island of excellence' is verbal mimicry and he recounts the gathering tragedy of his parents' disagreement amid the media furore surrounding the 'Fiend' with an autistic savant's unnerving clarity.

In the midst of the Vietnam war, sit-ins, counter-culture, and campus rallies, the 1966 graduating class of a South New Jersey coast high school came of age on the margins of political and cultural upheaval. This study reveals this group to be conservative teenagers shaped by mainstream loyalties to God, country, and family.

An analysis and critique of American representations of Oceania and Oceanians from the nineteenth century, this work argues that imperial fantasies have glossed over a complex, violent history. It introduces the concept of 'American Pacificism' to refigure established debates around 'orientalism' for an Oceanian context.

"A major contribution to the historiography of the New Left in the United Sates."-Journal of American History

Examines two equally important movements of the early sixties, the New Left and the New Right, both sides equally critical of existing society and both utopian in their visions. This book describes the ways in which the historical reality of the sixties has been dramatically distorted by popular political and social images.