One of the pens behind the press
Isla Verene
Romance · Romantasy · Chemistry written in the pauses
Isla writes the long look across a crowded room and the sentence neither of them finishes. Her romances run on banter, restraint and the ache of almost, whether the setting is a rain soaked city or a court where magic has opinions about who may marry whom. Every chapter ends exactly where you cannot possibly stop.
32 books in print · 14 journal pieces
Books by Isla Verene
A Little Further, My Love
A Lifetime Together and a Love Beyond Goodbye
If You Find This, Stay
A Love Story Written Between Goodbyes
One Last Seat Beside You
A Love Story of Hidden Kindness and Impossible Choices
Every Bell Between Us
A Romance of Stolen Moments and Impossible Choices
A Spare Key for the Rain
A Novel of Second Chances and an Open Door
The Bookshop of Slow Returns
Romance
The Blue Plate
Romance
The Mirror of the Sky
Romance
The October Roses
Romance
The Orchid House
Romance
The Bookmobile
Romance
Tulip Fire
Romance
The Indigo House
Romance
The Birdcage Maker
Romance
Season of the Hummingbirds
Romance
The Ripening Room
Romance
The Fire Lookout
Romance
The Diving House
Romance
The Painted Boats
Romance
The Unfinished Cloth
Romance
The Bookbinder of the Tide
Romance
Cloud Mountain Tea
Romance
The Mail Boat
Romance
The Island Cinema
Romance
Lanterns on the Slow River
Romance
The Rose Water Year
Romance
The Wall of Swallows
Romance
The Bluebird Vacancy
Romance
Uphill, With Love
Romance
Late Returns
Romance
The Vanishing Mile
A Novel of the Hem
What the Cold Keeps
A Novel of the Long Dusk
Isla Verene in the journal
- A Note Beneath Seat G Twelve
- The Minute Before the Bell
- The draft I ruined by letting them kiss on page forty
- The real love scene is the argument about who pays for the taxi
- In defence of the sentence nobody finishes
- Small signs that two people are in trouble, noticed on a Tuesday
- The ways a reader gives herself away
- The small lies the love story tells
- Small evidence
- On the slow burn, and whether it is just stalling
- One with sugar, one without
- The most romantic thing a person can do is pay attention