AN award-winning author is celebrating the release of two of her latest novels.

Jane Lovering, who lives in Kirkbymoorside, has launched Can't Buy Me Love in paperback, while Little Teashop of Horrors, has just become available as an ebook.

She said: "There's an awful lot of local references in this release, so anyone who knows the area will be recognising things all over the place."

Jane's 2012 debut, Please don’t stop the music, saw her receive the highest accolade in UK women's fiction - Romantic Novel of the Year from the Romantic Novelists’ Association.

As well as Jane's latest releases, this year sees two of her books being translated and published in Norway by the country's biggest publisher.

Jane, who describes herself as having "five children, four cats and two dogs of variable sanity", works in the Co-op in Kirkbymoorside and also teaches creative writing. She is a member of the Romantic Novelists’ Association and has a first-class honours degree in creative writing.

Her novels include Please don’t stop the music, Star Struck, Hubble Bubble, Vampire State of Mind, Falling Apart, How I Wonder What You Are and I Don’t Want to Talk About It.

Lyn Vernham, managing director of women's fiction publishers, Choc Lit, said: "'Can't Buy Me Love is a wonderful book, about love, life and revenge. It is endearing, funny, observant and somewhat sad. It's wowing readers as we knew it would. Little Teashop of Horrors is about secrets, lies, carrot cake - and an owl called Shrillex. Readers are predictably loving it. Jane has an exceptional talent."