Ms Fiona Stables

Membership Grade
Professional Member

About Fiona

Featured

  • Highly skilled professional proofreader with over 15 years' experience in the publishing industry.
  • A specialist in law and criminology, with extensive experience in several other subject areas.
  • Over 300 titles completed, including many large and high-profile projects with internationally renowned authors.
  • A veteran of highly complex multi-contributor titles.
  • Flexible, approachable, and focused on providing a frictionless experience for clients.

Recent work

  • PACE: A Practical Guide to the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984
  • The Chinese Mafia (Clarendon Studies in Criminology series)
  • Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook, 6th edn
  • Blackstone's Police Investigator's Manual 2020
  • Blackstone's Investigator's Q&A 2020
  • Blackstone's Civil Practice (2016–23 edns)
  • Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration, 7th edn
  • Common Law and Modern Society (vols I and II of Lady Arden series)
  • The Scottish Independence Referendum

Subjects

  • Law (EU law, police manuals, English law, history of law, constitutional law, employment law, international law, human rights law, commercial law, consumer law, tables of legal cases and statutes)
  • Criminology
  • Social Sciences
  • History
  • Biography and autobiography
  • Fiction

Experience

  • Freelance Proofreader since 2012
  • Production Editor, Law, Oxford University Press, 2005–12
  • Proofreader, Palimpsest Book Production, 2003–04

Qualifications and awards

  • MPhil Publishing Studies (with distinction)
  • BA (Hons) English Studies (Literature and Language)



Service

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