The Book Social was launched in 2026 as a new imprint for fiction and non-fiction titles.

The mission of The Book Social is to put readers first and central to all of its activities. This means building a unique and major reader community in the UK and internationally, through working closely with book groups, libraries, reader events, while partnering with online and other existing reader communities.

“Results Department Editorial Services is run by Helen Johns, an award-winning copywriter and supplier of editorial services in Oxfordshire.

Helen can edit your book for publication, whether it’s fiction, biography or memoir, or non-fiction. She’ll check for consistency, clarity, and relevance; ensure grammar, syntax, diction, spelling and punctuation are correct; reduce over-long sentences; double-check that text references and footnotes are accurate; remove unwanted formatting, and check fonts are consistent.

Helen is also a first-class proofreader: checking for spelling and punctuation errors in headings and body copy; reviewing consistency of headings, references and pagination; ensuring fonts are consistent; dealing with missing or repeated text; and ensuring captions and source references are correct.”

Founded in 2025, Thousand Horsemen Press is an indie publisher specialising in fiction in translation, with a particular focus on Turkish literature. Whether in translation or not, we are always in pursuit of great stories that will stand the test of time.

Lucius Valiant is the author of The Thornhill Vampire Chronicles, a series combining Gothic horror, urban fantasy, and a dash of dark romance.

His latest release, Fanged Panic: A Thornhill Vampire Novella (September 2026), takes readers back to Highgate Cemetery in 1969, where something is stirring among the graves…

Breakthrough is a collective of authors that has created an innovative, award-winning independent publisher putting freedom and fairness for creatives – and quality and originality for readers – at the heart of its ethos. A diverse and eclectic list includes fiction and non-fiction, debuts and series, YA and adult sci-fi/fantasy, love stories, mysteries and thrillers, humour and satire, business books and short story anthologies.

Recent launches include Awakenings: why neopaganism and the folklore renaissance matter by Stevyn Colgan (who will be on stand), Curious Events Lately Occurring in this Neighbourhood by the Sunday Times bestselling Tom Cox, the award-winning surreal satire collection from Zena Barrie (also on stand) and romcom The Earth Husband by Dan Brotzel (also at the fair!) among nearly 20 other titles.

Saskia van der Zee is a crime writer inspired by the rugged beauty of the Shropshire Hills, a passion first sparked by the adventure books of her childhood. She holds a degree in Medieval History from the University of Oxford and an MA in Creative Writing.

Across an eclectic career as a teacher, voice coach, and equine massage therapist, books have always been her first love. She wrote her first novel for her children — now long grown-up — in a yellow camper van parked at the bottom of Ashes Hollow on the Long Mynd.

When she is not writing, Saskia can be found exploring the hills with her partner or reading in front of a log fire. She lives in Shropshire, juggling her writing with caring for a menagerie of horses, dogs and cats.

She is the author of the DI Georgie Fraser series, set in the iconic Shropshire Hills National Landscape and published by her own Dove Cottage Press. The latest in series, Bones of Caer Caradoc, was released on 29th September.