Our Story
We built D&H Publishing because the tools we needed to publish our own books didn't exist. So we built them.
Across five pen names and 7+ languages
Native production, not translation
eBook, paperback, hardback, audiobook, signed
Built with our own money, on our own books
The Founders
Co-Founder / Author
Author of more than 40 titles under five pen names, spanning geopolitics, history, biography, youth culture and construction. Twenty years in UK building regulations and technology, which is where the engineering discipline behind the pipeline comes from.
Co-Founder / Author
Author and researcher working on SOE and women's history, and co-author of the touring titles. Helen leads the editorial standards every manuscript is held to before it enters production.
The Story
Between us we have published more than forty titles, in five pen names and 7+ languages, through Amazon, IngramSpark and our own direct channels. Some are D-Day history, some are Salford culture, some are touring guides to corners of France that guidebooks ignore, and some are biographies of people who deserve a better record.
Each pen name has its own voice, audience and design language. That is the point: a series has to look like a series, and a genre has to look like it belongs on that shelf. Producing that consistently, in 7+ languages, without a team of freelancers, is what forced us to build our own pipeline.
We tried the usual route first. Editorial readers, typesetters, cover designers, narrators, each with their own schedule, their own file naming and their own idea of what the manuscript said. Months went by and the books still did not look like the books in our heads. So we built the tools we needed instead.
Every one of them was tested on our own catalogue before it was offered to anyone else. We know what professional quality looks like because we demand it for our own titles, before an author's book ever touches the system.
We live in rural France and publish in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Japanese. The Other France touring series exists in several of those languages because our readers asked for it, not because a strategy document said we should.
The Pen Names
A pen name is not a marketing trick. It is a promise to the reader about what kind of book they are holding.
Geopolitics, history and philosophy
Long-form analysis and historical narrative, written under the author's own name.
Salford biography and local history
Biographical work rooted in Salford, its people and its changing streets.
Youth culture history
The clubs, records and scenes that shaped a generation, documented first hand.
Celebrity biography
The Legends of the Silver Screen series, written to a single consistent series design.
Self-build and construction
Practical titles on building, renovation and doing it properly the first time.
Travel and touring
The Other France series, produced in multiple languages for readers in each market.
SOE and women's history
Research-led history of the women whose work was never meant to be recorded.
What We Publish
Our own catalogue is the proof that the pipeline works. These are the subjects and series we publish.
Series include The Other France touring guides, produced in multiple languages, and Legends of the Silver Screen, a biography series built to one consistent design.
Languages
Languages
Native production in every language we publish, not a translation layer added afterwards. Metadata, cover text, descriptions and narration are all produced in the target language.
Company Details
Registered name
D&H Publishing International Ltd
Company number
17413553, registered in England and Wales
Registered office
71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden
London, WC2H 9JQ
France office: Mayenne, France
Founded
2026
Work with us
You write the book. We handle the interior, the cover, the descriptions, the audio and the distribution, and we hold it to the standard we hold our own titles to.