Below is a selection of titles I've worked on, some via ​project management companies Bespoke Publishing, Newgen UK/India, Straive India and Tate & Clayburn. For my full portfolio, click here.

Copy-editing

Proofreading
  • Championship Points​ – Andrew Jarrett (self-published)
  • ​Social Networks and Migration: Relocations, Relationships and Resources – Louise Ryan (Bristol University Press)
  • Politics and Policy Making in the UK – Paul Cairney and Sean Kippin (Bristol University Press)
  • COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK: Responses, Impacts and Adaptation – James Rees, Rob Macmillan, Chris Dayson, Chris Damm and Claire Bynner (Policy Press)
  • Prosthetic Agency: Literature, Culture and Masculinity after World War II – Gill Plain (Cambridge University Press)
  • Freud's Thinking: An Introduction – Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen (translated by Katy Masuga) (Cambridge University Press)
  • The Philosophy of Theoretical Linguistics: A Contemporary Outlook – Ryan M. Nefdt (Cambridge University Press)
  • The Clinician’s Guide to Cognitive and Behavioural Therapeutics (CBTx) for Insomnia: A Scientist-Practitioner Approach – Colin A. Espie (Cambridge University Press)
  • Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary – Torsten Andreasen, Emma Sofie Brogaard, Mikkel Krause Frantzen, Nicholas Alan Huber and Frederik Tygstrup (Goldsmiths Press)
  • States of Danger and Deceit: The European Political Thriller in the 1970s – Rachel Hayward, Ellen Smith and Andy Willis (Manchester University Press)
  • The Devil's Highway: Urban Anxieties and Subaltern Cultures in London's Sailortown, c.1850–1900 – Brad Beaven (Manchester University Press)
  • Technology, Health, and the Patient Consumer in the Twentieth Century – Rachel Elder and Thomas Schlich (Manchester University Press)
  • Rethinking Migrations in Late Prehistoric Eurasia – Manuel Fernández-Götz, Courtney Nimura, Philipp W. Stockhammer and Rachel Cartwright (Oxford University Press/British Academy)
  • Lionel Messi and the Art of Living – Andy West (Pitch Publishing)
  • Stories of Cricket's Finest Painting: Kent v Lancashire 1906 – Jonathan Rice (Pitch Publishing)
  • The Diary of Sport – Nick Weatherhogg (Pitch Publishing)
  • Sixty Years a Red ... and Counting! A Lifetime's Passion – Brian Barwick (Pitch Publishing)
  • 85 Not Out – Ted Dexter (Quiller Publishing)
  • The Player Piano and Musical Labor: The Ghost in the Machine – Allison Rebecca Wente (Routledge)
  • Contemporary Dance Lighting: The Poetry and the Nitty-Gritty – Carol M. Press and Vickie J. Scott (Routledge)
  • Psychoanalysis at the Crossroads: An International Perspective – Fred Busch (Routledge)
  • Pandemic Health and Fitness – Sabina M. Perrino and Joshua O. Reno (Routledge)
  • Organisation, Communication and Language: A Case Book of Methods for Analysing Workplace Text and Talk – Erika Darics and Jonathan Clifton (subsequently published by Palgrave Macmillan)
  • 100 Great GAA Moments – John Scally​​ (Black and White Publishing)
  • Doing Qualitative Desk-Based Research: A Practical Guide to Writing an Excellent Dissertation – Barbara Bassot (Policy Press)
  • 50 Dark Destinations: Crime and Contemporary Tourism – Adam Lynes, Craig Kelly and James Treadwell (Policy Press)
  • Rural Places and Planning: Stories from the Global Countryside – Menelaos Gkartzios, Nick Gallent and Mark Scott (Policy Press)
  • Parliamentary Diplomacy of Taiwan in Comparative Perspective: Against Isolation and Under-Representation – Zlatko Šabič and David Huang (Bristol University Press)
  • Detroit after Bankruptcy: Are There Trends towards an Inclusive City? – Joe Darden (Bristol University Press)
  • The Sociology of Contemporary Work: What It Is, and Why We Need It – Marek Korczynski (Bristol University Press)
  • ​​Revise AQA GCSE Chemistry Higher Revision Guide​ (plus nine other similar guides) (Pearson Education)
  • Understanding Signed Languages – Erin Wilkinson and Jill P. Morford (Routledge)
  • Cooking for Drunks – Andy Armstrong (self-published)
  • Parenthetical Meaning​ – Todor Koev (subsequently published by Oxford University Press)
  • Nelson Street and A Little Act of Kindness (short stories) (2Simple Software)
​I've also copy-edited and proofread material for students, researchers and businesses, for example:
  • research papers 
  • linguistics and sociology essays, dissertations and theses
  • website copy of Medicalholodeck.com, a company that produces virtual reality applications for medical professionals and students
  • CVs and personal statements for Inten Education Group, a study-abroad consultation agency
We were very happy with Pete's proofreading. His corrections were useful and he has a good eye for detail. He completed the project on a tight deadline, returned it on time and was very accommodating about some last-minute scheduling changes.

​Rosie Pierce, Black and White Publishing