Caw Press is a small, experimental publishing company based in London. Our goal is to disrupt publishing by bringing together scholars and the public in new ways. We are not an academic press publishing pricey books by academics, primarily for academics. Nor are we a trade publisher pumping out books by academic celebrities and driven by what a literary agent or commissioning editor thinks will sell. Instead, our goal is simple but radical: to produce non-fiction by scholars that is specifically written for the public (i.e., avoiding impenetrable prose or pet academic theories) but that is not dictated by what the publishing industry thinks the public want. This means our books are lively and informative, a pleasure to look at, properly marketed and distributed, under the control of the scholars who write them, and cost no more than a glass of wine (well, a large one). Silent but Deadly, Caw Press’s first book, is a test case for the model.