 Three novels by Beynon were published in 1935/36, two of them works of science fiction, the other being a detective story.He also used the pen name Wyndham Parkes for one short story in the UK's "Fantasy Magazine" in 1939, as 'John Beynon' had already been credited for another story in the same issue.During these years, he lived at the Penn Club, London, which had been opened in 1920 by the remaining members of the Friends Ambulance Unit, and which had been partly funded by the Quakers.