The controversial book by Alexander Litvinenko, the former FSB agent destined forever to be (inaccurately) remembered as “the poison spy” following his radioactive murder in London at the end of 2006, and co-written by Yuri Felshtinsky.

My job was re-editing the book ready for the paperback edition (the hardback’s release having been put forward following Litvinenko’s murder). Originally written in Russian, the English translation was often somewhat suspect, requiring a lot of tidying up. A lot of information was also missing – notably the first names and titles of many of the people mentioned in the book, adding to what was already a confusing read – which extensive research was able to rectify. Furthermore, the complexity of the central conspiracy theory was such that some structural editing was required – both in inserting paragraph and line breaks to help clarify the authors’ train of thought, and in re-arranging paragraphs and even chapters.

Major re-structuring, re-writing and editing down of this unprecedented study of Michelangelo’s bank accounts, property holdings and finances. At the heart of the book was always a completely new way of looking at the artist – it was my job to make those revelations much, much clearer than the academic author had been able to.

Major re-structuring and occasional re-writing of this harrowing piece of investigative journalism, ten years in the making, which explores the background and story of a regime of sexual and physical abuse of mentally handicapped residents of a care home.

A re-issue of disgraced former Conservative MP Jonathan Aitken’s biography of disgraced US President Richard Nixon.

Editing largely involved reducing page count by c.25%, as well as standard fact-checking, etc.