I’m Mira Tosheva, a Bulgarian-born writer and poet whose work delves into what it means to be human – how we navigate our own personal stories, the changes we go through, our vulnerabilities, and the relationships we build with ourselves and others.

My debut poetry book, “Малки истини за Големите хора / Little Truths for Grown-ups”, was first published in 2022, followed by a second edition in 2026. A bilingual collection of poems and reflections, it explores life choices, personal experiences, and the small truths we discover along the way.

My writing also extends to personal essays, which have frequently appeared in a Berlin-based English-language women’s publication.

If you’re visiting the Oxford Indie Book Fair, do stop by to say hello – I’d love to meet you!

Where has depletion become normal in your life?

Stewardship: For the Woman I Am Now… And the Woman Who Is Emerging is a guided journal for women navigating change and the quiet work of returning to themselves. Across nine chapters, from The Return to Emergence, it creates space to hear yourself again and to make choices from that place. No correct answers. Only honest ones.

Lorraine Kidd is a writer and the founder of Ocean Energy Living. She lives by the sea in Eastbourne.

Visit Lorraine at table N57 for a signed copy – a thoughtful gift for a woman at a turning point, or for yourself.

Martin Baker is a writer and children’s book illustrator. These include Wellington the Tin Soldier, Rhymes with Berti, Girls in Front, The Pie-Eyed Piper, Parodies Lost, and The daring aerobat. His adult books include, Lady Ironthigh’s Black Book – Sex Scandals of a Sick Century, “I, God!” autobiographies of the biblical, and Parodies Lost.

He contributed features on classical music, poetry and art history to the BBC, The Times, and also many academic publications in the UK and USA.

For many years he worked for the classical record company, Deutsche Grammophon, researching and writing musicological texts.His latest book is a translation of a 1947 Holocaust survivor’s book, Oh, my chosen people!

My father from China is his disingenuous justification for living a colourful life.

Sarah Lustig is the author of the Westminster Mysteries series, which follow the adventures of Theo Duncan, the Prime Minister’s son, as he tries to solve mysteries that have baffled Parliament.

The first book in the series, Mystery in the Palace of Westminster, was awarded Highly Commended in the Selfies Children’s Book Award 2023 and it is a Wishing Shelf Book Awards finalist. The second book in the series, Body in the Thames, was also shortlisted for the Selfies Book Awards, 2025. The series finale, Murder at Speaker’s House, published in September 2026.

Sarah been a book editor for over 15 years and lives in Buckinghamshire, where she spends her time reading, writing and pottering on her balcony garden.

Francis Towne’s Lake District Sketchbook, published by the Winterbourne Press in a limited edition, is a beautifully crafted book. The exquisite watercolour illustrations, reproduced at actual size from the 1786 originals, are accompanied by an Introduction and Commentary. A two-volume signed and numbered special edition, hand-bound in a slip case, will also be available at the fair at a cut price, as long as stocks last.

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.