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Small Engine Press

Books that move with the precision of a well-made thing

An independent publisher of carefully considered works — texts that endure, ideas that matter, editions made to last.

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About the Press

Publishing with intention,
since the beginning

Small Engine Press was founded on a simple conviction: that good books, made well, find their readers. We work with writers whose voices resist easy categorisation — texts that open questions rather than close them, ideas that accumulate meaning across a lifetime of reading.

Our process is slow by design. Each title moves through editing, design, and production with the attention it deserves. We believe the physical object of the book carries meaning alongside the words it holds.

We publish in small, considered runs. Quality over volume. Permanence over noise.

"The job of a press is not to publish books, but to bring certain kinds of thinking into the world." — Editorial Statement
  • Independent editorial judgment
  • Rigorous attention to design
  • Long-term author relationships
  • Sustainable, small-run production
  • Open to unsolicited submissions

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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Child Disability
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Keywords: A Vocabulary of Child Disability

Dan McEvoy

An original critical vocabulary tracing the terms we use to understand, describe, and construct childhood disability — from access and agency through to voice and wellbeing.

Each entry is a close reading: of a word's history, its contested uses, and the stakes involved in how we choose to speak. Essential reading for educators, practitioners, researchers, and anyone who works alongside disabled children and their families.

Publisher Small Engine Press
Category Education · Disability Studies
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Forthcoming
Soil Memory — cover
Soil Memory
Dan McEvoy
What Ancient Forests Know About Grief, Time, and Letting Go. Nothing in a forest is ever lost — only transformed: a reckoning with grief told through the science of decay, succession, and deep time.
Care — cover
Care
Dan McEvoy
A History of Disabled Children. Seven thousand years of evidence that humans have always had the capacity to care for their most vulnerable children — and have always chosen whether to use it. Forthcoming January 2027.

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