The Avelrow shelf
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Speculative Fiction
Eimear Kane
The first thing Nora Quinn noticed was not the missing day. It was the kettle. The little red light should have been glowing on the switch, the lid trembling with its familiar domestic panic, steam worrying at the kitchen window while the town bell counted eight over the roofs of Bellweather. Instead the kettle sat cold on the counter, full to the line, silent as a held breath.
Romantic Comedy
Bronagh Fairburn
By nine o'clock on Friday morning, Niamh O'Connell had accidentally become engaged to Cormac Byrne, the one solicitor in Dublin who could make silence sound like a legal threat. The ring was not hers. The building was barely theirs. The photograph was already halfway to becoming public property. Fair Day Rooms held its breath around her: old wood, kettle steam, rain on the high glass, and the brass donation bell dented by decades of hopeful hands.
Sports Romance
Nessa Calder
Physiotherapist and single mother Aoife Byrne has built a careful life around work, community and her fierce nine-year-old daughter. When football star Eoin Daly returns home for a testimonial season, the boy she once loved walks back into the leisure centre carrying an injured knee, a changed life and the history neither of them has quite buried. As school visits, family loyalties and the pressure of public attention pull them closer, Aoife and Eoin must decide whether a second chance can be built from something quieter than grand gestures: trust, ordinary reliability, and the courage to stay after the match is over.
Sports Romance
Nessa Calder
Rain stitched the evening into something close and salt-tanged, and Sive Ní Chathasaigh stood with her back to the chain-link, watching cones go down in perfect rows. Her girls trotted out in twos and threes, chatter bouncing; hurleys tapped like impatient metronomes against shins. The floodlights kept their own weather—moths, tiny halos, a hard white sheen on wet grass.
Sports Romance / Community Women’s Fiction
Laura Carpenter
Claddaghmore Gaels sequence
Sport, community and the loyalties built around both sit at the heart of Claddaghmore Gaels. It is a romance about belonging to a team, a town and, eventually, to someone.
Sports Romance / Community Wedding Romance
Nessa Calder
Claddaghmore Gaels sequence
A wedding brings the Claddaghmore community together with all the old loyalties, sporting rivalries and romantic complications that follow. County and Wedding is warm, lively and rooted in people who know one another too well.
Contemporary Women's Fiction
Laura Carpenter
She lets the kettle sing because if she cuts the song short, the day will feel unfinished. Steam rounds the kitchen window; she rubs a small circle clear with her knuckles and sees the Liffey in its expensive grey. Seven months along, nineteen years old, and somehow both. Orla answers her palm with a deliberate push—hello, I’m here—then settles like tide easing against a harbour wall.
Book Club Fiction
Fiadh Callister
The Kettle Song She lets the kettle sing because if she cuts the song short, the day will feel unfinished. Steam rounds the kitchen window; she rubs a small circle clear with her knuckles and sees the Liffey in its expensive grey. Seven months along, nineteen years old, and somehow both. Orla answers her palm with a deliberate push—hello, I’m here—then settles like tide easing against a harbour wall.
Sports Drama Romance
Bronagh Fairburn
High Tide Trilogy · Book 1
After a near-catastrophic rig failure threatens his offshore racing campaign, skipper Ronan Kearney needs one strategist brilliant enough to keep the team competitive: Maeve Sullivan, the navigator tied to the part of his past he has never managed to put right. Bringing her back to County Down means old loyalties, old hurt and championship pressure collide on the same deck. Off Course is a high-stakes sports romance about trust under pressure, second chances and two people learning that winning means very little if they repeat the same old mistakes.
Equestrian Romantic Suspense / Sports Romance
Keela Northmere
After a championship accident shatters elite rider Maeve Callaghan’s certainty, recovery pulls her back into a world of horses, family pressure, sabotage and surveillance—where trust must be rebuilt carefully enough to become a choice rather than another command.
Contemporary Women's Fiction
Laura Carpenter
The kettle was cold. That was the first thing Aisling Moore noticed when she opened the back door of her father’s house and let herself into the kitchen where half her childhood had happened in steam, quarrels, rashers, and people pretending not to cry. Not the dust lying grey along the windowsill. Not the stack of unopened letters held down by a chipped mug with GARDA COMMUNITY RAFFLE 2009 fading from blue to a tired sort of purple.