Acorn Press: 114 books

'A meticulously researched adventure story' - Sunday Express 'The mixture of glamour and menace in the novel's Vietnam setting is well caught... this is a pacy, absorbing read, with some good set-pieces and a satisfying ending' - The Times ‘It’ll keep you hooked until the very end’...

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...

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....

Body image is more important to us now than ever before, and it can sometimes seem that life is beautiful only if you're beautiful yourself. We spend so much time and effort trying to measure up to a glossy magazine ideal that we make our lives miserable in the process as our appearance is never 'good...

Paul Ballman has helped some of the biggest companies in the world get their leadership strategies on track. He has conducted detailed interviews with 2,000 leaders about what has worked for them and why. He has studied the simple success formulas and models that are peddled by gurus across the industry,...

“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...

“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,...

"A compellingly readable contemporary fantasia set in a vivid New York of the mind." - Kirkus   John, part radicalised anarchist, part ticking time bomb, is haunted by a particular story, that of Willow, a 9-year old mute who flees to New York after her brutal rape. The only...

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...

The former Crimewatch presenter Sue Cook takes an understandably journalistic approach to her fiction writing, confronting difficult issues head on in pursuit of a good story... Cook is well-attuned to complex family relationships and has artfully constructed a thought-provoking and compelling drama...

“An authentic, well-written and deeply-felt portrait of the tragedy that is South Sudan.” – John Le Carré  “I thought of everyone I loved as I ran. I thought of Michael… and of Billy. Of Bol and Manute. And then names began falling like tears around me…”  Maria Marshall is a trainee...

The people of Stourbridge have long since grown accustomed to the ways of Christina Compson, the beautiful woman who has been so successful in her running of Henzels glassworks. But the mistakes of her past life come to overshadow the lives of Christina's family.  The two eldest children, Emily and...

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,...