As a freelance translator and editor, I have worked on a variety of projects over the years ranging from editing detailed academic texts to writing and subbing newspaper copy, and translating specialist books on archaeology to ghost writing a voluminous work on owls. The majority of my clients have been book publishers, including Thames & Hudson, HarperCollins, Collins Harvill, Cambridge University Press, Heinemann, Pan, Simon & Schuster, St James Press, St Martin’s Press and Periplus Publishing, but I have also worked for a number of other organisations including the Times Newspaper, Frame Store Films, Listings Limited and the Institute of Paper Conservation.
To date, I have translated some sixty books from French on subjects ranging from the fine arts to photography, fashion and textiles, and from ancient history to biography and travel. More recently I have also been working closely with a number of Dutch translation agencies, editing English translations of legal and commercial documents, while continuing to prepare a second collection of my own poetry for publication.
Thames & Hudson
Hokusai: A Life in Drawing
FLORA: The Art of Jewelry.
Zanskar: A Himalayan Kingdom
Ballets Suédois
Camera Work: Stieglitz, Steichen & their Contemporaries
Marc Riboud
The Origins of British Photography
The Search for Ancient Egypt
Baccarat
Angkor: The Serenity of Buddhism
Angkor: Heart of an Asian Empire
Mummies: A Journey through Eternity
The Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries
Marc Riboud in China
Going into Darkness: Fantastic Coffins from Africa
Gandhi: Father of a Nation
The Animated Alphabet
Francis Bacon: “Taking Reality by Surprise”
King Arthur: Chivalry and Legend
Kittens of the Greek Islands
Whales: Giants of the Seas and Oceans
The Orient in a Mirror
J.M.W. Turner: The Man Who Set Painting on Fire
Balenciaga Paris
Christian Lacroix On Fashion
The Pyramids of Giza: Facts, Legends and Mysteries
Tibet: An Inner Journey
Josef Koudelka
Bill Brandt
Bedouin and Nomads: Peoples of the Arabian Desert
Walker Evans
Frida Kahlo: “I Paint my Reality”
Textiles: A World Tour
Bhutan: The Land of Serenity
In Whose Name?: The Islamic World After 9/11
Jean Després: Jeweler, Maker and Designer of the Machine Age
Home (Yann Arthus-Bertrand)
VU: The Story of a Magazine that Made an Era
Paris Vogue Covers 1920-2009
Paris between the Wars: Art, Style and Glamour in the Crazy Years
Claude Montana
Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style
Erik Desmazières: A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death
The Wallpaper Book
The Bitter Years: The Farm Security Administration Photographs through the Eyes of Edward Steichen
Coming into Fashion: A Century of Photography at Condé Nast
Indigo: The Colour that Changed the World
Daido Moriyama
Brassaï: Paris Nocturne
Cashmere: A French Passion 1800-1880
Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and Now
Maison Goossens: Haute Couture Jewelry
The Lost Tribes of Tierra del Fuego: Selk’nam, Yamana, Kawésqar
New Swiss Architecture
Other publishers
Lech Walesa: A Path of Hope (Collins Harvill, contributor)
International Dictionary of Architects (St James Press, contributor)
International Dictionary of Films & Filmmakers (St James Press, contributor)
Encyclopaedia of Marine Archaeology (Periplus Publishing, contributor)
Sunken Egypt: Alexandria (Periplus Publishing)
Kings of Pain: Masters and Convicts of the Road (Thames & Hudson for Rapha Performance Roadwear)