Nyinkommet | Light Over Liskeard

Cryptographer Q prepares for a new life on Bodmin Moor and discovers what really matters to him.Qs work as a quantum cryptographer has led him to believe a crisis is imminent for civilisation and he’s looking for somewhere to ride out what’s ahead. He buys a ruined farmhouse on Bodmin Moor and begins turning it into a refuge.Cornwall does not offer simple escape. The moor brings him into contact with reintroduced lynxes and aurochs, local eccentrics, an Arthurian knight and a watchful holy man. All while Q negotiates his relationships with his children, his ex-wife and the beguiling Eva. As our systems of electronic control falter, Q learns that survival may depend as much on community, love and humour as on preparation.Shortlisted for the 2024 Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize, Light Over Liskeard is a warm, wry literary novel about technological collapse, rural life, family, second chances and what matters when the future is uncertain.’Beguiling’ Observer’A feelgood story about friendship and lovevintage de Bernières’ Daily Mirror’A wonder… wry, wise’ Daily Mail’Heaps of old-fashioned adventure’ The Times