Acorn imprint: 280 books

Jo’s secret haven is the beautiful garden of the big house nearby – until it is sold to a property developer who plans to cover it with houses and flats. In her efforts to save it she finds herself tangling with a very mixed collection of neighbours, struggling to find her way around the unreasonably...

     It’s two days before Christmas Eve, and the Mills family is under siege.  Nine-year-old Will is used to the annual battle with Ysolda Povenmire and her devil dog, but what, pray tell, do the FBI and CIA have to do with things?  Fearlessly risking life and limb,...

Thirteen-year-old Rachel is bad news, or so her foster care worker tells her. She’s been shuttled from one rotten foster family to another ever since her mother and brother died in a car accident five years ago, and she’s running out of options. So when she gets caught shoplifting and is kicked...

Kira’s adventures continue with she tries to find her true home. Kira has discovered that she’s not human, but merrow—a mermaid—and that her biological parents are prisoners on an island run by the hateful finfolk. At thirteen years old, she’s not old enough to leave her sleepy seaside...

Hello, the name's Bone, James Bone, and I'm just the dog to get you out of trouble. Me and my other canine friends are busy working behind the scenes on top-secret missions to keep this great nation of ours safe. We risk our paws all over the globe so that you good people can carry on in a civilised...

 Franny Callaghan feels invisible. With a missing mother only seen occasionally who speaks to the family through the closed door of her bedroom or the ensuite bathroom and a father and younger sister, who travel most of the time, home long enough to wash their underwear and re-pack before...

A young widow, orphan and mother, Wilhelmina Anne Brown is just beginning to find some stability in her new home in Prince Edward Island when she is forced to deal with the death of her beloved uncle, Bill Darby. Darby, a Charlottetown private investigator, leaves Anne and her fourteen-year-old daughter...

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...

Set in the rurmoil of social change and political unrest of Australia during the 1960s, The Songs of Jesse Adams traces the meteoric rise of a boy from the bush - a farmer's son who breaks away to follow his heart, his dreams and his love of music. But, as Jesse travels with his band and the crowds...

The man famously described as 'The Best Comedy Writer in Great Britain', wrote to Trev, 'I've read 'Love is Funny' and thoroughly enjoyed it. I thought the way you handled all those characters was masterful - excellent for film or TV.' - Guy Bellamy 'Love is Funny' is a romantic grown-up comedy par excellence,...

Both of these stories bring the past into the present, involving Germans, French, British, Spanish and Americans. The first is a mystery from 1947, the second concerns the simmering hatreds left over from the war, and how they just might be buried.These two poignant yarns come from the great collection...

     Mary Dawson escapes her life in Maine for a long weekend, seeking the solitude and peace of a quaint, oceanfront inn on the beautiful Atlantic shores of Florida. The last thing Ben Ford, darling of the race car world, has on his mind is the company of a stranger, especially when she’s a...

Using the same inventiveness he brings to his novels and short stories, Trev Hunt has often found fun ideas to make life brighter for family and friends. For instance, with a pocket of 5 coins he devised a game of 'magic' for his two young sons, now also enjoyed by his grandchildren. Or made 'Simple...

Jesus and Muhammad are arguably the two most influential individuals who have ever lived. Over half of the world today claims to follow them and the religions they founded: Christianity and Islam. But who were these two men? Where did they come from? What did they do and teach? And what was their...