Breakthrough Books

🎉🎉🎉 Huge congratulations to @BrethertonWords for being recognised by the Chanticleer Global Thriller Awards and for winning the Medical Thriller category in the NYC Big Book Awards! Needless to say we are… thrilled! 🥳🍾 #NYCBigBookAward #GabbyBookAwards @GabbyBookAwards

As a small but growing indie publisher, which will always be AI free and fair to our creatives, we also need to understand our readers. We’d be really grateful for any participation in this #poll! I tend to hear about #books I might want to read through:

We are incredibly grateful for another fantastic year, and would like to wish everyone a very happy 2026!

2025 also saw us open our webshop, a fantastic and ethical way to support indie business, plus our children’s book for the charity Families in Grief, Figgles & Flo was longlisted for a Chanticleer Award, and in December we started posting free short stories on our new Substack!

What a year! Six books, one award win, a new webshop and a few free short stories on our Substack! But we’re getting ahead of ourselves… #HappyNewYear #YearInReview #ThankYou #BookLife

Brussels season is at an end. Now is the epoch for a new vegetable to rise… Please enjoy this tasty little palate cleanser over Betwixmas with this #shortstory from Breakthrough’s own @jchipperfield3, available for free on our Substack! @breakthroughbooks/p-182776152" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@breakthroughb…

And why not sign up to our Substack while you’re at it? There’ll be more coming in the way of stories, news, extracts, features, tips and articles!

With only one more weekend until Christmas, now is the perfect time start getting in the mood for the festive season with this free short story from our very own @BrethertonWords! #FreeShortStory #ChristmasReading #FestiveSeason #Substack breakthroughbooks.substack.com/p/arctic-yule

With only one more weekend until Christmas, now is the perfect time start getting in the mood for the festive season with this free short story from our very own Stephanie Bretherton! #FreeShortStory #ChristmasReading #FestiveSeason #Substack breakthroughbooks.substack.com/p/arctic-yule?…

Thrilled to be in the top 20 with my award-winning thriller The Fire In Their Eyes, our from @BBookCollective !

some hilarious stories that might cause the spitting out of Christmas pudding, a wild ride through the ancient and modern Middle East (including Bethlehem!) or a fantastic dip-in-and-out-of palate-cleansing short story collections?

Whether that’s an award-winning literary thriller, YA fantasy with brilliant world building, a much admired “artistic” mystery, a beloved children’s book about cherishing memories…

Oh come on, it’s not Christmas without books as gifts? And if you’re doing the right thing by the ones you love, why not do the right thing and support ethical indie businesses, while also getting a fantastic read? #christmasgiftideas #christmasreading #givethegiftofbooks

“Nicole’s expertise in art and design shine throughout the novel. “I’m drawn to aesthetic aspects of interiors,” she explains. “I had great fun describing the rooms, the textures and the colours, making the settings almost characters themselves.”

Lovely to see Nicole Swengley and The Portrait Girl getting the attention they so deserve in @randamag. Huge thanks to @LizxNic for this lovely piece! #AuthorInterview #MysteryThriller #Victoriana #ArtWorld #BookClubRead