SynJon Books

25/11/2025

25/11/2025

All our titles are discounted on the www.synjonbooks.co.uk website -some by as much as 70%!!

A great chance to get your Christmas shopping started.

Happy shopping

19/11/2025

Latest Blog Post from SynJon Books

What I Learned About Quoting From Letters While Researching Ted’s StoryWhen I first began writing about Ted — my great-grandfather’s cousin, executed in 1916 and later pardoned — I knew the journey would involve difficult truths, military history, and some painful family discoveries. What I ...

05/11/2025

Crime in Victorian Kent

Author Helen Allinson will be delivering a new talk

Our next meeting is on Wednesday 12th November and Helen Allinson will be giving us a talk on Crime in Victorian Kent.

25/10/2025

Enjoyed the today speaking to a lot of people about My Grandad's WW2 diary and his photo albums and the legacy of his story ❤️

Free returns are available for the shipping address you chose. For a full refund with no deduction for return shipping, you can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition.

25/10/2025

Today is the Day - I am at the from 10am to 5pm where you can hear me read extracts from My Grandad's WW2 diary and see over 50 other book sellers. A chance to get your Christmas shopping done!!

Come and say hello!

21/10/2025

For anyone local to Milton Keynes then I will be reading extracts from My Grandad's WW2 diary - Air Raids and RAF Days at the MK Book Fair this Saturday 25 Oct at Middleton Hall.

Please do come and say hello!!

02/09/2025

End of summer sale - take a look!! Many of our local history titles are on sale!!

https://www.synjonbooks.co.uk/shop

Browse our books, and filter by author, topic or publisher.

22/08/2025

My next book project has come on leaps and bounds during a summer writing 'sprint':

For the last 5 weeks I have been attending a 'Summer Book Sprint' with Book Mentor Karen Williams - and there is just one week to go!! I set out with the intention of having a rough first draft of a book that I have been researching for over a year, but has it's origins in family legend over 100 yea...

21/08/2025

Take a look at our latest blog posts:

https://www.synjonbooks.co.uk/post/exploring-the-napoleonic-war-diary-of-rifleman-william-green-from-the-95th-foot

Looking through some old papers of my grandfathers I have come across some documents relating to the War diary of William Green - Rifleman of the 95th Foot. He lived to a ripe old age of 96 and died of old age in ..The original version of the book was published in 1975, an...

16/08/2025

19 years ago 306 WW1 soldiers who were executed for desertion and cowardice were pardoned after a long campaign by relatives and politicians. My relative William Wilfred 'Ted' Roberts was one of those men.

For the last year I have been writing his story and following in the footsteps of my grandmother who tried to find out more in the 1980's. At the time all of the documents were embargoed and she later did a BBC interview covering the story which helped her get early access to the information.

I plan to publish the book next year to tell Ted's Story, the story of the family secret and story of the campaigns that eventually granted them all a pardon.

The National Archives
My Grandad's WW2 diary

07/08/2025

Read more diary entries in the Diary of John Teague: Air Raids and RAF Days

Available in paperback and Kindle via Amazon.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Air-Raids-RAF.../dp/0904373266/
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Air-Raids-RAF.../dp/B0F3N7Q3X1/

And from any good bookstore
https://www.waterstones.com/.../helen-allinson/9780904373264



Della Judd My Grandad's WW2 diary