Peabody Ink is run by Dr. Kat Hall. She offers services to writers, academics, journals, publishers, TV production companies, and cultural bodies in and beyond the UK –

• Translation (GER-ENG) – literature, culture, publishing, academia
• Editing, copy-editing, proofreading
• Consultancy – reader reviews, TV/film adaptation evaluations

Kat’s areas of expertise and experience –

• 25 years of editing and copy-editing academic and literary texts
• translator (member of the Translators Association)
• manuscript editor for the Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
• Honorary Research Associate in Modern Languages, Swansea University

Kat has worked with and advised – 

• BBC Radio Four
• BBC Wales
• BBC World Service
• Brown University
• CrimeFest
• De Gruyter Verlag
• Euston Films
• Fischer Verlag
• Frankfurt Book Fair
• Goethe-Institut London
• Index on Censorship
• Kiepenheuer & Witsch
• Leo Baeck Institute Year Book
• Marcel Hartges Literatur- und Filmagentur
• Mystery Tribune
• Newcastle Noir
• New Books in German
• Orenda Books
• Peter Lang Publishing
• Piper Verlag
• Swansea University
• University of Wales Press
• Working Title TV

Recent projects – 

• translation work for Frankfurt Book Fair 2019
• comparative edit of German thriller in English translation
• translation of chapters for academic volume on German crime fiction
• translation and editing work for The Frankfurt Magazine
• translation of Frankfurt Book Fair press releases
• translation of German publisher catalogues for London Book Fair
• editing work for academic journals
• translation of literary samples for diverse German publishers
• reader reports for German publishers and New Books in German
• translations of pieces by Saša Stanišić, Terézia Mora, Ferdinand von Schirach

Please get in touch via the contact page for further information and rates.