All That She Wants, by Maeve Haran (Warner, £5.99 in UK)

Francesca Tyler is beautiful, flame-haired and the editor of a local newspaper

Francesca Tyler is beautiful, flame-haired and the editor of a local newspaper. She doesn't have much time - literally or metaphorically - for men, but her biological clock is ticking ever louder. As is the way of things in romantic fiction, before you can say "sperm donor" she has two contrasting hunks in her life, a wedding in the offing and a baby on the way. But whose baby? Standard Mills & Boon formula stuff, this, but Haran executes it at a sufficiently crisp pace, and with enough engaging humour, to make it easy and entertaining.

Arminta Wallace

Arminta Wallace

Arminta Wallace is a former Irish Times journalist