Acorn Independent Press Ltd: 28 books

“Pure joy… Irresistable… ” Marie-France. “Knife-sharp humour” L.A.Times Weekly.   Until she’s abducted at gunpoint, Miranda Green’s life is an excitement-free zone. Her career has never taken off, her four children are petulant monsters, and her husband Jack,...

Robert Hillier is shocked when film actress, Tamara Collins, visits his office and tells him that her husband, film director Lewis Lawson, has beaten up Robert’s twenty-year-old son, James. Ever since the suicide of his wife, Jill, Robert has been particularly protective towards James, who is offhand...

Mailliw’s second adventure begins on Halloween. The joy of his friend Princess Frija’s surprise visit is soon overshadowed by her terrible news. The black diamond has been stolen and her country is about to go to war with the Guardian of the Winter Mountains – the very person who had helped Mailliw...

Whilst recovering from a canoeing accident in the South of France, and with a promising professional swimming career in tatters, 16 year-old Marion sees an advert that will change her life: Icon models are holding a contest.   She enters, gets whipped into shape by militant stylists,...

In a large city, it’s easy to remain anonymous, be careful who you talk to... The Ultimate is London’s slickest vigilante. He is almost invisible; silently creeping around the capital, looking for wrongs to right. After overhearing a man bragging about abusing his girlfriend, The Ultimate has...

   As Frank discovers more about the government’s project on Planet Muta, encountering several new settlements as he does so, his confused decision-making starts to be questioned from all sides.  Still unsure of the project’s intentions, and after taking several heavy hits to his floundering...

Frank Noon divides opinion. Whilst some say he’s a philosophical genius, some say he’s a fanciful dreamer who deliberately courts controversy with his anti-establishment views about the failings of modern society. Seemingly nearing the end of his life in politics, he reluctantly fronts...

It is 1924. After a hasty departure from his previous employer, journalist, David Driscoll, arrives in the Midwest city of St. Luke to start a new job at the town’s foremost newspaper, The Bugle. He wastes no time in looking up his old boyhood friend, and one-time playground protector, Mike...

There’s a code of honour among London criminals: you don’t grass, you respect turf boundaries and you never, ever do any deal without Harry “The Bastard” Rose’s approval. Harry Rose rules supreme but there are a few new faces in town that need to be taught a lesson – the hard way....

It is the summer of 2005 and for sixteen years England’s cricketing dreams have been languishing in the gutter, and to make matters worse, James Greene’s love life is heading the same way. With his heart set on getting fit for a half-marathon and the seemingly over-optimistic promise of an English...

"Utterly indispensible guide for anyone wanting to make a living at comedy, and very funny too." British Comedy Guide "Dave writes about comedy more concisely and in more depth than I ever could. For this reason alone I dislike him intensely." Omid Djalili Comedian, Perrier nominee...

"For Mao, a journey of 1,000 miles began with a single step. For me, a journey of 50,000 miles begins with a singing Womble"   Join Neil Matthews as he goes “underground, over ground”, with his wife Helen and a few furry friends as they visit the places which gave the Wombles their names.....

Amid an Edwardian era of golden summers, of staggering excess, and rule by an elite, passions simmer under the confines of froufrou dresses and starched collars. Returning from the Boer War, George Erskine falls desperately in love with a debutante and heiress to a country estate. Much to...

Etta’s husband George died, and if George could die anything could happen. Etta is overwhelmed with feelings of panic – unable to breathe, to think, to move. Wanting to run home, but there is no home any more, only a house. That’s when Etta decides to visit her last surviving relation, a woman...