Stephanie Bretherton

@breakthroughbook.bsky.social

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Adama!

Oh my goodness, that is joyous. An instant family. I’ve known several pairs of twins and the sibling bond is a wonderful thing. It will be hard work in the beginning, of course, but then there is also the great thing that they can keep each other company and distracted!

TWINS!!!

Happy World Book Day! Here’s to anyone reading or writing any kind of truly human-made book. Let’s turn up the dial on empathy, awareness, connection and let’s celebrate the quiet, simple pleasures. Let’s rediscover the humanity of sharing in inspiration, imagination and craft.
#worldbookday

They just don’t get it, do they ? So much hand wringing and all the headlines about a ‘shock’ result, but it wasn’t a shock at all to anyone who was paying attention.

This is such a wholesome post, but only after I read it properly. At first I was very confused because I read ‘curfews’ instead of ‘curlews’ which was rather dystopian — the proper reading is so much better!

As ever, the powerful and the power hungry machinate and manoeuvre and murder, raining hell and hypocrisy while the vulnerable and helpless and the environment suffer. Evil puts on the cloak of righteousness to fight a rival evil. Nothing happens out of or in isolation. The ripples roll out.

Oh, those grapes are particularly sour, aren’t they?

Oh such good, good news. Go Hannah! A win for hope, a win for empathy, a win for real, grounded representation. And for aware, tactical voting.

Oh such good, good news. Go Hannah! A win for hope, a win for empathy, a win for real, grounded representation. And for aware, tactical voting.

Congrats on the baby news!

The stuff of writerly dreams!

The rule that drives book sales… YouTube video by Mark Stay

Someone in publishing went on a business course in the early 2000s and got very excited by one particular principle…😁

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A swirl of news and analysis. But top of mind for me, the survivors. All survivors of cultures that consume and discard the vulnerable.

Sadly not, but will look it up later!

I have a schedule clash but will try to catch up!!

BOOK BARGAIN ALERT!

We have no idea how long this offer will last but The Portrait Girl by Nicole Swengley is now only a fiver on Waterstones’ website!

Described as “a throughly engaging mystery” by the FT, this gorgeous paperback is also the perfect #BookClubRead.

Nice!

Ah. Robert Duval. So reliably, quietly, masterfully good. Fondly remembered. What an innings.

So cool!

Thanks!

We couldn’t be more delighted that
Figgles & Flo, so sensitively written by Antonia Blackmore, beautifully illustrated by Sarah P Sharpe and created for the charity Families in Grief has been named a Finalist in the Little Peeps Award by Chanticleer Book Reviews & Media.
#kidlit #chlidrensbooks

Great minds! Or at least, obsessive ones… ;)

When things haven’t quite gone as hoped or up to (unrealistic) expectations, I say to myself, “well, you did your best.” And that’s probably true. But then I go and add, “but what if you overdid your best? Yes, you being you, you probably went and bloody overdid it.”
Perfectionist’s curse. #toomuch

I do not even want to dignify that monstrosity out of the festering cesspit of the White House, but I cannot let it pass without expressing both (obvious) outrage and solidarity with black and brown people everywhere.

Thanks indeed!
#booksly

Where the bloody hell is Jeremy? ;)
#booksky