Books

In a rainy Irish coastal town, the market runs on three things: gossip, second chances, and whoever remembered to put the kettle on.
She’s not here for grand gestures. She’s here for stability—routine, work that feels honest, and a life that doesn’t fall apart the second someone raises their voice. After a stretch of bad luck and worse choices,...

In Derry, privacy is a kind of oath.
Maeve has built a life on rules—quiet ones, the kind that keep you standing when your past comes knocking. The kettle goes on. The door stays shut. The line is clear.
Then Rowan comes back.
He’s the man she loved, the man she lost, and the one person who can still pull truth out of her with a single look. Old...

Aisling Byrne swore she’d never move back to Galway.
Ten years, one burnout, and a bruised CV later, she’s back on the Salthill Prom with wet trainers, a deadline, and a promise to keep: save Harbour House, her mam’s tired guesthouse and community hall, before the money runs out and the lights go dark.
Her plan is simple. Work hard, stay focused,...

Niamh Hanratty is very good at keeping other people afloat.
By day she’s the calm centre of a Galway classroom, building “Bright Tide” – a project that teaches kids how to name their needs, ask for colour instead of volume, and know they’re allowed to leave and come back. By night she’s juggling guardianship paperwork, tide tables, and one small...

HARBOURLIGHT
A Contemporary Irish Romance
by Laura Carpenter
Some harbours are made of stone.
Some are made of hands.
When Aisling returns to the wild Atlantic coast, she tells herself it’s temporary. A contract. A reset. A place to breathe after a life that went quietly off course.
She doesn’t tell anyone about the boy who never lets go of her hand.
...

A Cork morning is its own kind of weather—rain on the zebra crossing, small hands gripping backpacks, and a town that runs on routine, humour, and the quiet bravery of getting everyone safely to the other side.
Mairéad Keegan is the art teacher who arrives early with spare socks, warm cocoa, and a plan for every small crisis. Declan Ward is the...

A broken-down bookmobile, a single mum who keeps time for a county, and the mechanic who quietly learns her heart’s routes.

Niamh Murphy runs her life by routes and timetables.
By day she drives the county bookmobile, stamping dates and handing out stories from parish halls and school yards. By night she’s raising two kids who know that love looks...

Twelve nights to keep a promise. One landing to hold the line.
The first time Cara McKenna heard that knock, she was ten years old, halfway down the stairs, counting the wobbly bannister spindles to stop herself crying while social workers with clipboards rearranged her life. That night, she promised herself two things: she’d have a house of her...

Siofra Lane has three rules for survival:
Clean hands. True records. No heroics.
As a contract archivist and single mum, she moves from one crumbling collection to the next, stabilising the past just long enough for someone else to cut the ribbon and take the photographs. This time she’s in charge of a historic Irish house-museum where the...

When the wave took everything, she swore she would never come back.
Years after the accident that shattered her coastal Irish town, Orla Quinn has built a careful, landlocked life in Dublin—no sea, no storms, no reminders of the night the ocean decided who it would keep. But when a family emergency drags her home to the windswept village she once...

When the roof starts leaking in the town’s shabby-but-beloved community hall, nobody expects the Thursday choir to become the glue holding everyone together. Rowan, a widowed father doing his best not to over-rescue the world, just wants a place where his daughter can breathe steady. Eliza, the hall manager with a pencil behind her ear and a...

Some love stories don’t begin with a spark.

They begin with a history.

They know each other’s tells—the pause before a lie, the hand that hovers before it reaches, the way I’m fine can mean please don’t leave. They’ve already loved once. They’ve already broken. And they’ve sworn they won’t make the same mistakes again.

When two people who once...

Some houses are inherited.
Others inherit you.
When a long-held family home on the edge of a small Irish town is left to a fractured group of relatives and near-strangers, the will is clear—and uncompromising. To keep the house, they must all live in it together for one year. If they fail, the house will be sold.
No one expects it to work.
Old...

Some love stories aren’t rebuilt from memory.
They’re rebuilt from choice.
When a house fire on a quiet Belfast street brings firefighter Peter O’Callaghan face-to-face with the woman he once loved, he doesn’t recognise her. Or the children watching him from the pavement. Or the life he apparently walked away from.
Evie remembers everything.
They...

A Belfast street can look ordinary from the outside: a sticky gate, a stubborn hinge, a kettle that never gets a rest. But Maeve knows how quickly “ordinary” turns into survival.Maeve has rebuilt her life the hard way—one school run, one gig, one careful choice at a time. Her son is three, her world is small and fierce, and she’s finally found...

Niamh Keegan comes home to the west of Ireland in the teeth of winter—rain slanting like judgement, hedgerows dark with secrets, and the iron gates of her father’s estate waiting exactly as they always have: polished, imposing, and quietly accusing. Her father is dead. The house is already full—neighbours, condolences, whispered assessments...

After the Chorus
Saoirse Ní Bhraonáin used to have a future that looked inevitable: a voice that stopped rooms, a love that felt written in stone, and a life that seemed destined to be lived in front of people.
Then it all went wrong—publicly, brutally, and in a way she never fully recovered from.
Now she’s a single mother in Ireland, living small...

In Belfast, every mistake leaves a paper trail.
Maeve Keenan didn’t leave the city for glory. She left to survive.
Years ago, one decision—made under pressure, made with incomplete truth—unravelled her career, her reputation, and the quiet certainty of who she thought she was. The story that followed was tidy, repeatable, and unforgiving. Belfast...

Some debts are inherited.
Some are chosen.
And some must be paid in truth.
When the past resurfaces, it doesn’t do so gently.
After the Silence s a deeply emotional, character-driven novel about motherhood, memory, and the quiet reckoning that comes when love collides with long-buried choices. Told with restraint, intimacy, and piercing honesty, it...

THE NORTH STAR’S LULLABY
by Laura Carpenter
Belfast in December hums with small mercies—market lights, fiddle songs, and the breath of strangers passing close in the cold. For Aoife Devlin, returning home after years away feels like stepping into a melody she once knew but can no longer sing. The North Star Market is alive again, strung with paper...