[4] Apart from writing regularly for The Guardian newspaper, Sutherland has published a number of books of literary scholarship and is editing the forthcoming Oxford Companion to Popular Fiction.
Carefully going over the text, Sutherland highlights apparent inconsistencies, anachronisms and oversights, and explains references which the modern reader is likely to overlook.
In 2005, he was involved in Dot Mobile's project to translate summaries and quotes of classic literature into text messaging shorthand.
The same year, his annotated edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Black Arrow was released by Penguin Books.
He has also provided the forewords and introductions to a number of titles in the Oxford World's Classics series; for authors such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Anthony Trollope and Wilkie Collins.