Acorn Independent Press imprint: 32 books

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....

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...

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,...

In a large city, it’s easy to remain anonymous, be careful who you talk to... The Ultimate is London’s slickest vigilante. He is almost invisible; silently creeping around the capital, looking for wrongs to right. After overhearing a man bragging about abusing his girlfriend, The Ultimate has...

   As Frank discovers more about the government’s project on Planet Muta, encountering several new settlements as he does so, his confused decision-making starts to be questioned from all sides.  Still unsure of the project’s intentions, and after taking several heavy hits to his floundering...

Frank Noon divides opinion. Whilst some say he’s a philosophical genius, some say he’s a fanciful dreamer who deliberately courts controversy with his anti-establishment views about the failings of modern society. Seemingly nearing the end of his life in politics, he reluctantly fronts...

It is 1924. After a hasty departure from his previous employer, journalist, David Driscoll, arrives in the Midwest city of St. Luke to start a new job at the town’s foremost newspaper, The Bugle. He wastes no time in looking up his old boyhood friend, and one-time playground protector, Mike...

There’s a code of honour among London criminals: you don’t grass, you respect turf boundaries and you never, ever do any deal without Harry “The Bastard” Rose’s approval. Harry Rose rules supreme but there are a few new faces in town that need to be taught a lesson – the hard way....