Tina and the Blue Bear

By Paul Emery Price £12 paperback

This tale of a rapid lap of the globe – 93 days to get through 13 countries and 19 time zones – is engagingly written and well-paced with plenty of action. Tina of course is the bike – a Triumph Scrambler – and as long as you don’t get irritated by people naming and talking to their bikes, you’ll probably enjoy this self-published story a lot. SIMON WEIR