Acorn imprint: 280 books

The unexpurgated, hilarious and unflinching history of computers, of the lunatics who create them, and of the idiots who use them, retold in cartoon strips by Mel Croucher and Robin Evans. Great Moments In Computing is the longest-running, most widely read and best loved computer cartoon strip in...

The billion dollar video games industry had to start somewhere, and this is the hilarious, heartbreaking, inside story of how it all began and where it's all headed. And in the middle of it all there was a game hailed as the best ever written. It was called Deus Ex Machina. It was a creative triumph...

Do you know everything about Game of Thrones? When everyone is talking about the latest storyline is it YOU they turn to for an explanation of the history of the characters? Do you remember the fine details of every episode from the start?If so, then prove it with Game of Thrones: The Ultimate Quiz Book!...

Harry Devlin is hired by the Kavanaugh Trust to contest the will of their late patron. Charles Kavanaugh has left everything to his new housekeeper, Vera Blackhurst. Then the current Chairman of the Trust is found dead, fallen from a third-floor hotel window. Did he jump or was he pushed?

The world's largest building collapses as terrorists launch weapons of mass destruction against the civilian population. Except this time the target is His Majesty's Royal Dockyard. The superpower is England. The terrorists are American. And it’s 1776. Shock and awe, as a media war sows the seeds...

In one single day the entire UK changed, and could never revert back to normality. Bombs detonated in every major city across England, releasing the little known ‘Non Compos Mentis Virus,’ and with it destroying seventy-five percent of the population. However, the virus didn’t kill those who...

Toxic Treacle is a dystopian thriller for Young Adults. It is set in a society where female nurturers have excluded males from all aspects of child rearing other than breeding and financial maintenance. Monkey is 15: a pre-breeder and he will soon graduate to the male zones at the other side of town....

Brough and Miller and the rest of the Serious team are back for their eighth case. When local dignitaries start turned up murdered, the Dedley detectives are plunged into the world of the occult while suffering the effects of budget cuts. Supermarket megalomaniac Dennis Lord is a target - Can the team...

A killer is slaughtering the prostitutes of Victorian London and Inspector John Kipper is baffled. Meanwhile, Damien Deacus, sidekick to a mysterious doctor, strives to keep himself out of trouble - and fails! Author William Stafford combines humour, horror and steampunk in this historical fantasy of gruesome crime and comic invention.

Jody is a bubbly 10-year-old girl with the unfortunate habit of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. Desperate to find her missing brother James, Jody’s vivid dreams take her to Tamila, a mysterious land inhabited by magical wizards, mischievous pixies, nasty witches and helpful fairies. There,...

When the world is drained of all colours David the Snake Dragon comes alive once more and takes Kellie and Gregory on a journey to the Land above the Clouds where the evil gnome known as The Painter has stolen the rainbow and broken it into separate colours so they can’t mix and create real colours....

There's a new pupil at St Agnes’ school in the historic city of Meresbury. She's a mysterious, otherworldly girl called Emerald Greene. A girl without a past, without a family or friends. When Jess and Richie decide to befriend her, they're in for a few shocks for Emerald lives in a mansion which...

Sarah and Julie switch on the television: instead of the movie they expect, they see a crowd of their favourite storybook characters, including Cinderella, Puss-in- Boots, Aladdin, Bo Peep and Hansel and Gretel, calling out for help. So the two girls step into the fantasy world beyond the TV screen and...

Weston and Turner, novice private detectives, are plunged into a nightmare world of murder when they are hired by a young millionairess to solve the triple murder of her family, a crime the police failed to solve more than eleven years ago. As they delve deeper into the case, they soon discover a hired...