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Introducing the editors
Michael Ayton has worked as an editor since 1983, and since 1991 as a part-time lecturer in English literature at the Centre for Lifelong Learning, University of Newcastle. He has worked for numerous publishers, including Cassell, Sage and Oxford University Press, as well as for a range of other employers, specialising in literature and the social sciences. He is resident editor at the Newcastle Centre for Family Studies, University of Newcastle.

John Metson has a PhD in English, and has taught English literature at Durham, Teesside and Sunderland Universities, as well as English language and literature in the Arab universities in the West Bank, where he lived from 1981 to 1984. He has been a copy editor since 1994, and has worked for clients from all over the world, specialising in editing texts by Arab writers.

Testimonials
My impression is that you have completed this task with skill and sensitivity. In almost every case I have either confirmed your suggested improvement or amended the text myself so as to eliminate the problems or ambiguities you noted. ¼ I ¼ join with my fellow-editor in thanking you very warmly for your meticulous work. (Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson on the editing of their Austrian Studies Volume 4, Edinburgh University Press, UK) I hope you will not mind my writing to you to thank you for the very careful attention you have given to my manuscript. ¼ I do want you to know how grateful I am for your help; I have adopted many of the suggestions you made for improving the way the manuscript reads.

(Marion Shaw on the editing of her Tennyson, Harvester Press, UK)

You did fantastic work on my dissertation. You expressed my ideas exactly.

(Nawaf Al-Azma, Saudi Arabia) ¼ there is no doubt that we have all benefited from your contribution to our work and I am very grateful to you for improving our publications. (Janet Walker, Director, RELATE Centre for Family Studies, UK) Thank you for working so hard on my thesis in order that I could submit it in time. You have helped me very very much to get my doctorate. I have learned so much from you. (Abdullah Al-Suweiji, The United Arab Emirates)

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