Thrifty Borga
Asiamah challenges the stereotype of the “stingy” UK borga, showing how African migrants’ thrift is a survival strategy shaped by British economic pressures and systems where mistakes are costly and success is rarely loud.
Publication 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 List
Catalogue
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Ember & Bloom
Two brothers build a machine that predicts the apocalypse. Their rivalry fractures time into a future where humanity endures and one where greed leaves a wealthy man alone on a dead planet. Narrated by Ananse, this climate tragedy explores our shared fate.
The Back Route
The Back Route is George Asiamah’s memoir of failure, delay, second chances and becoming - from poor exam results and lost years in Ghana to earning a PhD and teaching at Oxford. It is a story of perseverance, opportunity, family, mentors and finding another route when the expected one closes.
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Academic textbooks & monographs
Coming soonAfrica’s Unfinished Transformation
Africa’s Unfinished Transformation explores how power, institutions and history shape Africa’s development. From precolonial economies to debt, digital finance and climate change, George Asiamah examines the forces shaping inequality, productive capacity and the continent’s paths towards prosperity.
Coming soonUnderstanding Politics - An Introduction to Political Theory and Comparative Government
A textbook for undergraduate students of politics, PPE and related disciplines. Bridging political theory and comparative government, it explores power, justice, democracy and development through clear explanations, global examples and practical questions that spark debate.
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 & digitalTypesetting & 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 £450Academic & 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 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.”