Typesetting & interior design
Print-ready interiors for novels and trade nonfiction — professional page design, running heads, front and back matter, delivered as press-ready PDF.
from £450Publication services · Independent publishing · Oxford
Books worth carrying.
Typesetting, indexing, book production, and website design for authors, academics, and organisations — alongside a small independent list of literary fiction and serious nonfiction.
The StudioPublication services
Publication services
& prices
The same production craft we use on our own list, for hire. You pay a fee; your work stays entirely yours — every right, every file.
Book production
Print & digitalAcademic & complex typesetting
Monographs and edited volumes with scholarly apparatus — notes, tables, figures, bibliographies — quoted per page.
from £1.80 / pageIndexing
Back-of-book indexes for monographs and serious nonfiction, prepared by a subject-literate indexer to publisher standards.
from £350Full production package
Manuscript to publication: copyedit liaison, typesetting, cover, ebook conversion, ISBN and metadata, print-on-demand setup.
from £950Thesis & report formatting
PhD theses, working papers, and institutional reports formatted to specification — clean, compliant, and print-ready.
from £150Cover design
Trade-quality cover design for print and ebook, including spine and back-cover copy setting.
from £250Website design
Built to be readAcademics
Personal academic sites: research profile, publications list, teaching, and contact — fast, elegant, and easy to keep current.
from £400Professionals
Portfolio and profile sites for writers, consultants, and practitioners — your work, services, and story, properly presented.
from £550Projects
Sites for research projects, books, and campaigns: outputs, events, team, and news, with a design that matches the work's ambition.
from £600Businesses
Complete small-business sites: brand-consistent design, service pages, enquiry forms, and copy edited as carefully as the code.
from £900The List
Catalogue
Print worldwide · Ebooks on all major platforms
The Imprint
Publish with us
01 / Open door
Submit a manuscript
We publish a small, carefully chosen list of fiction and nonfiction. If we take your book on, we invest in it — editing, design, typesetting, and worldwide distribution — and you earn royalties.
We take on very few titles — and give those few everything.
- 01Literary fiction & memoir
- 02Serious trade nonfiction
- 03African & diaspora writing
- 04No fees to authors — ever
“We never charge the authors we publish, and we never publish the clients who pay us.”The line we don’t blur
Submissions
The autumn window opens 1 September 2026
We read in two open windows each year and respond to every submission. Send a cover letter, a synopsis, and the first three chapters.
The Name
A press named for how books travel
Oxter Press began in Oxford, but the name came the long way round — from Ghana through Belfast and Sheffield, the route its founder took to a fellowship at the University of Oxford, and the route traced in our first book, The Back Route.
We are a scholar-led press: everything we make — books, indexes, websites — is edited closely, set properly, and built to be read for years.
Scots & Ulster
oxter/ˈɒkstər/
noun The underarm; the space where a book is carried.
“She went out the door with a novel under her oxter.”