Acorn imprint: 280 books

A comic thriller to die for! Modesty de Mise is dead set on saving the local cemetery from developers. It's right next to where she lives, above her parents' business - a funeral parlour! And, as if that isn't bad enough, things start to look grave when teen-mobster Harley Spinks turns up to arrange...

Laura was just eighteen years of age when she fled her family home on the Serbian Kosovo border at the height of the former Yugoslavian conflict. Her father felt she would be safer in Kosovo, free from the rape camps, massacres and ethnic cleansing that took place on their doorstep, the streets of the...

Tubten Norbu wants nothing. Literally. Not death. That doesn’t solve anything. With death you just have to do it all over again. No, what he wants is dissolution into the cosmic void: nirvana. And with the thangka and its four mystic incantations maybe he had what he needed to get there. Until someone...

This compelling autobiography details the true life story of one woman’s fight for survival. It details the depth of resilience that some extraordinary individuals can display when facing their own mortality. Fight for your dream epitomises Elaine’s life story and personal struggle with breast cancer,...

England, 1644. Young Ellie Harewood falls victim of renowned Witchfinder General Matthew Hopkins, and is left to die in the depths of a winter’s forest. As Ellie begins to pass to the other side she is rescued by an old hag, one fully immersed within the world of witchcraft. Sensing great power within...

When news of an electrical disturbance reaches the Millers Fall Police Department, no one imagined the fate of the officers sent to investigate. Unable to contact their colleagues, the remaining officers plan their own search, but stop as the night sky turns to an amber haze. With five officers missing,...

Mysteria, a small fishing island located just off the coast of Oregon. Covered in dense forests, its isolation is exactly what award-winning author Cameron Drake is looking for. After an amicable divorce he moves to the island from England, in an attempt to reignite his writing career. However, Cameron’s...

A comic tale of gangsters, first love and the crooked path to the straight and narrow: Mercedes Bent is trying to go straight - if only her family weren't so crooked. Mercedes has carved herself a nice little niche at the Daphne Pincher Academy for young ladies, running a sweepstake and taking bets on...

The quirky quest of a psychic time-traveller:Mmimosa Fortune has travelled the world with her clairvoyant mother - and now she's travelling through time! Name the country and Mimosa's lived there - but never for very long! So, when she and her mother arrive in the fishing town of Whitby and set up as...

Janey has survived an abusive marriage, a lifetime of boring jobs, and has dedicated her whole life to motherhood. But as her youngest child flies the nest, a twist of fate gives her the means to follow her dreams. But can dreams really come true? Or will the lies and secrets of the past consume her...

‘It was a rare malfunction in the Cryolab that led to the return of the deranged mutant Darkon. A blink in the electricity system turned the humidity meter off. It took no longer than a minute for the maintenance engineers to spot the malfunction and fix it, but the time was enough for a bead of moisture...

Ten-year old Brandon Fletcher is in Turkey on an ordinary family holiday. But how ordinary can it be when his new camera is behaving bizarrely and he meets a boy who might have lived 2,000 years ago?  When his dad is falsely arrested for a museum robbery Brandon is the only one who can prove...

Time Trek is a novel set in the 31st century where genetic engineering has eliminated disease; greed and violence have also been eliminated from humanity and life is perfect. But all genetic experiments did not go to plan. So when the evil, dangerous mutant Darkon, one of the rare failed experiments...

‘One minute Jasmin was standing in her bath, drying her hair with the hair dryer, the next she was in a noisy, crowded room wearing her dressing gown and carrying a suitcase with a faulty lock. It didn’t seem particularly strange, because her life was like that. She could be walking down the street,...