Curl up with some winter reading

 Bricket Wood mum Laura Barnard is back with her third novel Tequila & Teabags which follows the adventures of Rose. Sent to live with her cousin Elsie in the Yorkshire countryside, she is desperate to join her friends as a club rep in Mexico. When she hears about a council incentive offering free flights to the person who clocks the most volunteering hours at the local care home, she’s got her plan set. But she doesn’t plan on bonding with the old ladies, going after the village bad boy and trying to persuade Elsie not to become a nun. Available via Amazon or laurabarnardbooks.co.uk

You can travel further afield with Marshalswick writer John Brookes who has published the second of his trip memoirs, Reading the World: A Global Journey through Literature Volume 2. He has spent the last six years on an expedition to every country in the world – from his armchair – by reading a book from each and researching the places, history and how you might travel around it. 

“In my book you will join me not just in a voyage through each country’s literature; but in interminable journeys in rickety buses, meandering river cruises through dense jungle, off road excursions in unofficial taxis and numerous flights in planes of varying airworthiness,” he says.  Available through Amazon, Kindle eBook and ACT Libraries.

 Hatfield author Sandra Christina Shaw says adults enjoy her Pom Pom series of books just as much as children. Her third installment is Pom Pom Goes to Bramble Wood. 

“All of the bear’s adventures are based on me as a child, always trying to do my best, but ending up causing some kind of havoc,” says Sandra.  Published by Stockwell and available from Waterstones or Amazon.

New to the publishing world is St Albans oral surgeon Bikram Bal who has released his debut novel Through Your Eyes on the Amazon Kindle store and has already seen it enter the top 40. 

The 45-year-old was inspired by a dream to write the story which follows a London man obsessed with movies, who is forever in search of adventure although he is a coward at heart. He has a surreal encounter with a beautiful woman but ends up on a nightmare trip through time.  Available from Amazon