John Symons – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Stranger on the Shore

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:54 +0000

Chosen for September 2009 People’s Book Prize Collection for Non-Fiction Tracing the life of the author’s father, this passionate, vivid memoir follows him through his childhood in the west of England, his successful 25-year career in the Indian Army prior to the country’s independence in 1947, and his final years in Devonshire, where he raised a family while the symptoms of Huntington’s disease…

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This Life of Grace

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:50 +0000

Finalist in 2011-12 People’s Book Prize for Non-Fiction This Life of Grace is a biography and a history. It tells the story of Grace Jarrold, the youngest of eight children, who lived for almost ninety years in the village of Plympton in Devon. It also tells the story of the village over the last century, beginning with the Great War of 1914-1918, school life at that time as revealed in original…

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The Devil’s Dance

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:48 +0000

The Devil’s Dance transcends categories. It is an exciting, original story, full of menace and very moving. The story is told in turn by two teenagers, Jake and Samuel. It begins with a dream, like a musical overture, which contains the themes to be developed in the rest of the work and describes events that took place two or three hundred years earlier. Gradually the reader understands the horror…

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The Zinoviev Controversy Resolved

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:47 +0000

Finalist in Winter 2019/20 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Non-Fiction. The controversy surrounding the publication of the Zinoviev letter in the Daily Mail in October 1924 has close parallels with events today: On the basis of compelling evidence this book overturns the generally accepted view about the authenticity of the Zinoviev letter and shows that it was genuine.

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Love is His Meaning

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 08:03:47 +0000

This book tells the story of two people, born in poverty, who found each other and married in a world at war. They brought up and educated a family, but while their two sons were still very young, the father, a strong man who had served for twenty-five years in the army in India, developed the symptoms of Huntington’s disease. This cast a deep shadow over the family as his condition deteriorated…

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After Life… Afterlife?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 06:07:32 +0000

In late 2019 the Corona virus emerged and spread quickly around the world. With it went the invisible virus of fear. No one knew how many of those who caught it would die, but the fear of death was in the air. Most of the world was locked down. No public figure asked or tried to answer the questions, at one time so deeply felt: ‘Is death the end?’ ‘Is there an afterlife?’ Perhaps they assumed the…

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A Tear in the Curtain

SheaFowb429Aslf — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 05:01:57 +0000

Chosen for Spring 2013 PEOPLE’S BOOK PRIZE COLLECTION for Fiction This story of three families, Russian, Hungarian and British, is a timely reminder of the recent but half-forgotten period in which the story is set, the Cold War. Their experiences reflect the brutality, bravery, heartbreak, hope and disappointment of those days when Europe was divided by the Iron Curtain. As a thaw in East…

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