Jon Gliddon

Jon Gliddon lives with his wife and three cats on the edge of the Mendip Hills in North Somerset. An early interest in writing was put on hold whilst raising a family and building a career. With retirement on the horizon, the prospect of writing a novel came to the fore. A visit to the Porthcurno Telegraph Museum on a trip to Cornwall was the catalyst. The picturesque location, the amazing technology and the strategic nature of the telegraph, provided the focus for his first WW2 action thriller, Break in Communication.

Jon’s second book was motivated by research in to his Grandfather’s experiences in WW1. Mud, Blood & Bayonet, The Story of the 6th Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment 1918 day by day, is drawn from military and personal WW1 diaries. The book was published on 1st January 2018 to mark the Centenary year of the end of the war.

His second novel, The Forbidden Zone, was published in November 2020. This action thriller is set in August 1939 in the diamond-rich former country of German South West Africa. The Nazis are desperate for diamonds, colonial resistance fighters supply smuggled diamonds from the Forbidden Zone and in return want their homeland restored. The British Intelligence Service recruit Harvey Tremayne, a mining engineer, who knows the land, the diamonds and the smugglers. But their biggest enemy is the sun scorched and brutal Namib Desert.

Find out more on Jon’s website on www.jongliddonauthor.com