Book translation by literary specialists

Turnaround follows a realistic literary pace rather than a machine promise: a specialist translator works at a sustainable daily rate, and a full novel is planned as a scheduled project, not an overnight job. We agree a delivery schedule against your publication date, with the independent review stage built in for Specialist and Premium orders. Tell us the word count and the date you are working to when you upload the manuscript, and we will confirm a schedule before you commit.

Yes. Every book is handled by a native-speaker literary translator who preserves voice, tone, register and dialect, and adapts idiom and cultural references so the book reads as though written in the target language rather than translated word for word. The independent second read on Specialist and Premium orders checks that voice and register stay consistent across the whole text. Tell us about your book and its intended readers and we will match it to the right translator.

We can return your translated book in the same layout and formatting as the original, keeping chapter structure, footnotes and front matter intact, so it moves straight to typesetting rather than being rekeyed. For a series or an ongoing author we build and maintain a glossary and style sheet, so character names, invented terms and tone stay identical from one book to the next. Tell us if your title is part of a series and we will set this up from the start.

We translate to and from more than 200 languages and variants, across fiction and non-fiction: novels and short stories, children's and young-adult books, poetry, biography and memoir, and academic and reference titles. Each book is matched to a translator who works in that genre, because literary fiction, children's writing and academic non-fiction each need a different ear. Tell us the languages, the genre and the word count and we will confirm the right translator and a fixed quote.