Acorn Independent Press: 36 books

Clayton Goodwin wandered in to Hayters sports reporting agency as a skinny student in 1961. He progressed from running errands to reporting on matches and embarked on a comprehensive career writing for the West Indian press, originally about his first love – cricket – but later on all manner of elements...

   Throughout history, London has had its heroes and villains, from philanthropic entrepreneurs to highway robbers and everything in between. Historian and London guide, Terence Jenkins, shares some of London’s secret stories with you. Whether you want to see the virile statues that outraged...

THE OPERA GUIDE – 100 POPULAR COMPOSERS surveys the world’s greatest opera composers and their most popular works. Beginning with Monteverdi, who wrote the first important operas, they range through the repertory up to today’s ground-breaking works by Philip Glass, George Benjamin and other...

1944. In the early hours of the sixth of June, Ted Tappenden and an elite glider-borne force of the Ox and Bucks Light Infantry, successfully attack and capture the vital Horsa and Pegasus bridges in the first allied assault of D-Day. Ted returns from the war apparently unscathed and a hero....

As a child, Gaynor had many roles to play - parent to her baby brother, rescuer to her beaten mother and, most of all, keeper of the family secrets. She witnessed and experienced things that no child should and, aged 13, she took her first sip of whisky and thought she’d found sanctuary. She grew...

A memoir of a tough Irish childhood and a mother’s love In a dank Dublin tenement in 1942, Julie meets a stranger – her father. Like her severely ill sisters, her father is on the periphery of her early family life, whereas her ma is her bedrock – a feisty hard-working woman who singlehandedly struggles...

“A comic, uncorny update of the old fairy tale about the princess who marries a no-hope nerd.” SHE Magazine.     Your boyfriend has just announced that he’s buying a flat with his ex-lover. Your mother’s efforts to sweep you off the shelf and into the pocket of a prospective...

Evil wakes while the people sleep. Amongst the strip malls, concrete blocks and empty parking lots of the Southern town of Hokum, the American dream lies broken. A helpless immigrant the state has declared dead finds himself unable to prove otherwise. Abused Mexican kids abduct their schoolteacher...

Have you been backpacking with your daughter in India? Been ripped off at the Zimbabwe border - or anywhere? Inadvertently become a hatchery for the African Putse-fly - with only a jar of Vaseline and a steady hand between you and blood poisoning? Kate Nivison caught the travel bug (sometimes too...

Young officers have entertained themselves with farcical sporting escapades for longer than anyone can remember. With this useful guide to the games and pranks they cherish, from the mild to the outrageous, you too can partake in the fun. Whether you are looking to keep the children entertained,...

M: it was stamped in scarlet on his cardinal-coloured pullover. It was written in black on his birth certificate – and again, now, you have to think, scribbled on some anonymous slip of a form recording his unlamented death. And it was there, of course, all over the news, in the chat rooms, on the...

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...

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...

One ten-year-old girl, armed with only a crystal, against all the followers of The Dark Serpent. The future of the planet is at stake. On a balmy summer’s evening Salmek took her dog, Chewy, out for his usual walk. But there was nothing usual about what she saw – a meeting of the followers...