I work on a wide range of fiction and non-fiction; this reflects my own taste as I read broadly. See here for the range of editorial services I offer to writers and professional clients.

Within the dropdown tabs above, under the ‘Freelance Portfolio’ heading, you’ll find almost 350 books, divided by genre. I’ve also shone a spotlight on some titles below. This is selection will give you a flavour of my experience; these are all books that I worked on in an editorial capacity, e.g. developmental editing, line editing, copy editing, or proofreading.

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A selection of Sunday Times Bestsellers I've worked on

  • The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman

  • How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran

  • Lucky by Ed Jackson (rugby union player turned Paralympics presenter)

  • Get Divorced, Be Happy by Helen Thorn (award-winning comedian and podcaster)

  • Hear Me Out by Sarah Harding

  • Friend Request by Laura Marshall

  • Midnight in Everwood by M.A. Kuzniar

  • A Different Kind of Happy by Rachaele Hambleton (aka Part-Time Working Mummy)

  • With This Kiss by Carrie Hope Fletcher

  • Knee Deep in Life, and No Shame, both by Laura Belbin (author of the Knee Deep in Life blog)

  • Be Yourself and Happier: The A-Z Guide to Wellbeing by Will Young

  • Springtime at Cannon Hall Farm by The Nicholson Family

  • Ten Things I Hate About Me: How to Stay Alive With a Brain That's Trying to Kill You by Joe Tracini

  • The Good Liars by Anita Frank

  • The Four by Ellie Keel

  • Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

  • The Dose Effect by TJ Power

  • A Neighbour’s Guide to Murder by Louise Candlish

Book cover titled 'The Summer of Impossible Things' by Rowan Coleman, featuring an illustration of a large tree with a heart carved into it, two women standing nearby, one in a patterned dress and the other in casual clothes, against a background of a sunrise or sunset with stars.
Book cover titled 'How to be Famous' by Caitlin Moran. Features a woman wearing a leopard print coat, walking outdoors in an urban setting with buildings and pavement visible.
Book cover of "Lucky" by Ed Jackson, featuring a man in red jacket looking into the distance with a mountainous background.
Book cover of "Get Divorced Be Happy" by Helen Thorn, pink and orange background with yellow and white text.
Cover of a book titled "Hear Me Out" by Sarah Harding, featuring a woman with short blonde hair smiling and wearing a light denim jacket.
Cover of the book "Friend Request" by Laura Marshall, featuring a blue background, the title in large black letters, a smartphone with message icons and bloodstains, and quotes from reviewers.
Book cover titled 'Midnight in Everwood' by M.A. Kuzniar, featuring a dark blue background with starry night sky, white snow-covered trees, and a ballerina in a blue costume with orange accents, surrounded by decorative orange branches and stars.
Book titled "A Different Kind of Happy: Part-Time Working Mummy" by Racheale Hambleton, with bright yellow cover, pink and blue text, and small illustrations of women, a girl, and a white string with knots.
A paperback novel titled 'With This Kiss' by Carrie Hope Fletcher features a sky-blue background with pink feathers and white clouds, and a subtitle at the bottom that reads, 'If you knew how your love story ends, would you dare to begin?'
Book titled 'Be Your Self and Happier: The A-Z of Wellbeing' with colorful, bold text on a light pink cover.
Book cover titled 'Knee Deep in Life: Wife, Mother, Realist. And why you're already enough.' by Laura Belbin. The cover is yellow with pink and blue text, and features quotes from Mrs. Hinch and Giovanna Fletcher.
Book cover titled 'No Shame' by Laura Belbin, featuring a woman with a gray sweater hiding her head, exposing her midsection and thighs, against a yellow background.
Book cover of 'The Good Liars' by Anita Frank, with a green background, illustrations of three people inside a diamond shape, surrounded by blue and green foliage, with quote reviews at the top and a tagline 'Sometimes the truth won't stay buried...'
Cover of the book titled 'The Four' by Ellie Keel, featuring a sunset scene with three people walking and a child swimming in a river, with a large house in the background.
Cover of a book titled 'Fury of the Wing' by Rebecca Yarros, part of The Empyrean Series, with a yellow background and black text and illustrations of clouds and a flying dragon.
Cover of a book titled "The Dose Effect" with a white background, blue and purple text, and a radial abstract design in purple and blue at the center. Authors' names are TJ Power, and the book features quotes praising it from Jamie Laing and Dr. Julie Smith.
A book cover titled "Ten Things I Hate About Me" by Joe Tracini, featuring a man with glasses wearing a red and black outfit in a playful pose on a yellow background.
Book cover titled "Past, Present & Future" by the Nicholson Family, featuring a photo of four men and a sheep sitting on hay bales outdoors with a grassy field and trees in the background.
A book cover titled "A NEIGHBOUR'S GUIDE TO MURDER" by Louise Candlish. The cover features an illustration of a row of Victorian-style houses at dusk, with one window illuminated, showing a silhouette of a woman. There are birds flying in the sky above the houses.

A selection of other titles

  • Radio 2 Book Club picks: The End of the World Running Club by Adrian J Walker (2016), and The One by John Marrs (2017), which is now on Netflix

  • Killer Intent by Tony Kent, which was chosen for the 2018 Zoe Ball TV Book Club, as was The Sunday Times bestseller The Summer of Impossible Things by Rowan Coleman

  • Winner of the 2018 Speculative Romantic Novel RoNA Award: The Other Us by Fiona Harper

  • Two of the six WHSmith Richard and Judy Book Club summer 2019 titles - How to be Famous by Caitlin Moran and Marked for Death by Tony Kent

  • The No.1 bestselling novel (Ireland), The Hungry Road by Marita Conlon-McKenna (2021)

  • Winner of the Romantic Novelists’ Association Popular Fiction Award 2022 (voted for by librarians, book bloggers and reviewers, and booksellers): The River Between Us by Liz Fenwick; and the Festive Holiday Romantic Novel Award 2022: Winter at Cliff’s End Cottage by Sheila Norton

  • One Life: The True Story of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, the book that inspired the major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter (2023)

  • The BBC Book at Bedtime pick One Came Back by Rose McDonagh (2025), which was longlisted for the Caledonia First Novel Award and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize

  • The Quick and the Dead by Emma Hinds: A Love Reading Star Book and Best Book of the Year Pick 2025

Cover of a book titled 'The One' by John Marrs, featuring a blood splatter with a fingerprint inside the 'O' and a tag indicating it is a Netflix original drama, with the subtitle 'Have you met your match?'
Cover of a book titled "The End of the World Running Club" by Adrian J Walker. The cover features a black background with a yellow line resembling a road, a yellow circle with the phrase "To Survive You Need To Run," and a round emblem for "The Book Club."
Book cover of 'Killer Intent' by Tony Kent, featuring a silhouette of a man standing on stairs overlooking a city skyline with modern high-rise buildings and a blue-green foggy atmosphere.
Cover of the book titled "The Other Us" by Fiona Harper, featuring a blue background, cartoon houses, trees, and a winding road with a heart shape in the road design.
Book cover for 'Marked for Death' by Tony Kent, featuring a blue-toned image of a man ascending stairs in a dimly lit alleyway with graffiti, and text highlighting secrecy, a game, and escape.
Cover of the book titled 'The Hungry Road' by Marita Conlon-McKenna, featuring a girl standing on a dirt road with leafless trees in the background and a cloudy sky.
Book cover titled 'Winter at Cliff's End Cottage' by Sheila Norton, featuring a winter landscape with a white house, snow-covered trees, two people walking, and a snow-capped hill in the background.
A book titled 'The River Between Us' by Liz Fenwick features a cover with a sunset scene of a river, a house, and trees.
Book cover titled 'One Came Back' by Rose McDonagh, featuring a stag with antlers and a deer
Book cover for 'One Life' by Barbara Winton, featuring a collage of historical and contemporary images of people, including Sir Nicholas Winton, a woman with curly hair, and a man holding a child at a train station, with red and white text elements.
Book cover titled 'The Quick and the Dead' by Emma Hinds, featuring an illustration of a disc with a crow flying over a red and orange background.
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