Anyone looking for new songs should enjoy Ali Burns' new book of carols and winter songs The Merits of Gold.

"This is the second collection of traditional carols and winter songs that I've arranged for choirs, workshops or small singing groups, mostly in three and four part harmony. Some of the songs are very old with variations and versions winding back hundreds of years; some are new but based on old text found along the way as part of my research and hunting out of old carols and some I've written specifically for workshops and performances as 'opening', 'closing' and processional carols."