Acorn Independent Press Ltd : 28 books

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Sorry But I Thought You Were Black

50 Years With The West Indian Press

by Clayton Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014

Clayton Goodwin wandered in to Hayters sports reporting agency as a skinny student in 1961. He progressed from running errands to reporting on matches and embarked on a comprehensive career writing for the West Indian press, originally about his first love – cricket – but later on all manner of elements...
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by Terence Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013

   Throughout history, London has had its heroes and villains, from philanthropic entrepreneurs to highway robbers and everything in between. Historian and London guide, Terence Jenkins, shares some of London’s secret stories with you. Whether you want to see the virile statues that outraged...
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by Michael Tappenden
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2013

1944. In the early hours of the sixth of June, Ted Tappenden and an elite glider-borne force of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, successfully attack and capture the vital Horsa and Pegasus bridges in the first allied assault of D-Day. Ted returns from the war apparently unscathed and a hero....
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by Gaynor Goodchild
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2011

As a child, Gaynor had many roles to play - parent to her baby brother, rescuer to her beaten mother and, most of all, keeper of the family secrets. She witnessed and experienced things that no child should and, aged 13, she took her first sip of whisky and thought she’d found sanctuary. She grew...
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by Julie Monahan
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2014

A memoir of a tough Irish childhood and a mother’s love In a dank Dublin tenement in 1942, Julie meets a stranger – her father. Like her severely ill sisters, her father is on the periphery of her early family life, whereas her ma is her bedrock – a feisty hard-working woman who singlehandedly struggles...
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by Judith Summers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

“A comic, uncorny update of the old fairy tale about the princess who marries a no-hope nerd.” SHE Magazine.     Your boyfriend has just announced that he’s buying a flat with his ex-lover. Your mother’s efforts to sweep you off the shelf and into the pocket of a prospective...
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Travelling Light

Short Stories & Travel Writing to Take You Away From it All

by Kate Nivison
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2011

Have you been backpacking with your daughter in India? Been ripped off at the Zimbabwe border - or anywhere? Inadvertently become a hatchery for the African Putse-fly - with only a jar of Vaseline and a steady hand between you and blood poisoning? Kate Nivison caught the travel bug (sometimes too...
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by David Stanhope
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2014

Young officers have entertained themselves with farcical sporting escapades for longer than anyone can remember. With this useful guide to the games and pranks they cherish, from the mild to the outrageous, you too can partake in the fun. Whether you are looking to keep the children entertained,...
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by Christopher Walker
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012

M: it was stamped in scarlet on his cardinal-coloured pullover. It was written in black on his birth certificate – and again, now, you have to think, scribbled on some anonymous slip of a form recording his unlamented death. And it was there, of course, all over the news, in the chat rooms, on the...
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by Michael Drysdale
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011

Sir Phil Black was the kind of banker that everyone loved to hate; the ruthless kind who hired private detectives to snoop on his fellow directors and used their findings to secure his promotion to CEO. But he made a few bad decisions and the bank collapsed. Although Phil’s tax-payer funded pension...
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Salmek's Crystal

Book 1 in the Rainbow Serpent Trilogy

by Maria Grima
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013

One ten-year-old girl, armed with only a crystal, against all the followers of The Dark Serpent. The future of the planet is at stake. On a balmy summer’s evening Salmek took her dog, Chewy, out for his usual walk. But there was nothing usual about what she saw – a meeting of the followers...
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by Terence Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2011

Historian, journalist and London guide, Terence Jenkins, reveals a London you never knew existed, where bishops own brothels, wives are sold at meat markets and a Zulu prince wanders Beckenham's backstreets - all of it true. The streets of London come alive through this fascinating compendium as Terence...
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by Terence Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011

Following the sell-out success of Another Man’s London, Terence Jenkins, London guide and journalist is back with another entertaining collection.  London Lives takes you on a tour of some of the capital’s secret spots and uncovers its lesser-known stories and those of its remarkable inhabitants....
Cover of Dear Sister
by Judith Summers
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012

“A lovely, delicately spun tale… spell-binding and sensitively recounted. It’s a mesmerising story with extraordinary staying power.” West Coast Review of Books “Unputdownable.” London Daily News "This very readable tale about two sisters separated but cruelly linked by fate...
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