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Book publisher in the heart of the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire UK. We publish a select number of titles a year.

We are particularly keen to hear from authors of personal memoir and poetry, literary fiction and short stories, and we also publish the occasional rare gem of a children’s picture book. A number of our titles are also produced in rare and collectable hand bound hardback. We are passionate about books and we take a unique approach. At Crumps Barn Studio, we work hard to help our authors fulfil the

ir dreams. We are friendly and approachable, publishing just the sort of books you and your family will want to treasure.

10/09/2025

Our current top selling titles based on UK high street bookshop sales are:

CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE? by Jen Higgs - gaining 5* reviews across the board, this beautiful, hopeful, emotional story of health and resilience is our top selling read this month

ONE MOOR TIME by is continuing to dominate - walk the uplands of Dartmoor and Exmoor with Ben Pering along the Two Moors Way

THE PRINCESS OF PUMPKIN PALACE by and @zmamorije_by_iva_dukic is a gorgeously pumpkin-flavoured fairy tale for young readers. Look out for this book in Halloween shop windows across the UK - and send us your pictures if you spot it!

SWINDON MOUNTAIN by blends sci-fi and archaeology when a mountain unexpectedly arrives on the Marlborough Downs and is still one of our most popular reads

LOCOMOTION by various authors including is our own celebration of 200 years of railway travel in pocketbook form. Non-fiction and poetry makes this book a gem for railway enthusiasts.

05/09/2025

Ready to get into the mood for something spooky? Dark Moon Tales by Amaris Chase is ready to raise the hairs on the back of your neck. Spooky Ambiguous by various authors is the most brilliant collection of gothic and mystery, and we've even got something gorgeously in touch with the season for children - a pumpkin flavoured fairy tale with The Princess of Pumpkin Palace by and .

Dark Moon Tales is available in as well as paperback and ebook.

Get in the mood for Halloween with us

21/08/2025

It's PUBLICATION DAY for powerful medical memoir CAN YOU TELL ME WHERE YOU ARE? by Jen Higgs with additional material by her mother Steph Higgs and diary extracts from the NHS medical team who cared for her.

Over a year has passed since Lockdown, and Jen Higgs has managed to continue working at a children's day nursery without contracting COVID-19. Then, in late 2021, she receives the news she has been dreading.

An infant at the nursery has tested positive - and now, after an anxious wait for her own test results, so has she.

Two weeks later, Jen is deteriorating fast. She is admitted to hospital with pneumonia, which quickly leads to sepsis, multiple organ failure and a stroke. While doctors warn her mother, Steph, that she has narrowing chances of survival, Jen is experiencing the disorientation of a medically induced coma in intensive care.

Through the long months of illness and fear, the kindness of the nurses and doctors shines through. They chart her progress by asking one reoccurring question: can you tell me where you are?

A story of hope and recovery, resilience and healing - told through Jen and Steph's personal memories, and diary extracts from the NHS medical team in ICU.

Full of heartache and hopefulness, this book is a tale of family, sharing strength and enduring love even when they can't be together. It is also a stunning portrait of the people who work in intensive care, the kindness and the attention to detail, even when the patient is unable to respond.

07/08/2025

It's PUBLICATION DAY for Linenfold, the glorious new historical mystery from Georgia Piggott.

1626: From the sanctuary of Alice Jerrard's crumbling home, High Stoke, the deadly schemes at the heart of the court of King Charles I seem very far away.

But a carriage accident on the nearby road to London has filled her home with stranded passengers, and with them comes a hunt for a dangerous cargo.

Lord Hardcastle and his companions may be carrying more than just domestic items from Paris. And Lord Buckingham, adviser to the new King of England, is relentless in his pursuit of a treasure which could unseat Charles's young French queen.

Alice must be on her guard - for the battlelines are being drawn, and someone in her household is dreaming of betrayal ...

This is the fourth read in the series by .author - LINENFOLD: a deadly plot at the heart of King Charles I's court and a new investigation for Alice Jerrard, in bookshops and online now

04/08/2025

Our current top selling titles based on UK high street bookshop sales ... A gorgeous mix of literary, mystery and the great outdoors:

After the Horses by Mary Griese - atmospheric and literary with a strong of landscape. Fans of Laurie Lee will love this

Swindon Mountain by - nature writing meets science fiction and our top selling title of the year so far

One Moor Time by - a 15 year journey through the landscape of Dartmoor and Exmoor

The Otherlands by - monsters live on the edge of Cirencester. Technically for ages 8+ but who's counting?

Linenfold by Georgia Piggott - a sneaky arrival in our top 5 this one as it isn't set for release until Thursday, but some bookshops just couldn't wait (we don't mind)

In bookshops now

30/07/2025

If you've been watching the TV series about the Mitfords, you'll love this book. It's a window into the world they moved in, and of finishing schools, etiquette and preparing for the London Season as a debutante.

Officially a fictionalised memoir, GIVE ME THE MOUNTAINS is the mostly true story of Anne Swan's childhood, drawn from her own memories and those of the people around her while growing up and emerging into 1940s London society, before this young woman follows her own path and searches for freedom.

28/07/2025

Exceptional memoir can become a primary resource for researchers and writers. These three non-fiction reads each reveal life in the early 20th century from a single perspective and by doing that, reveal so much about day-to-day life for ordinary people.

Want to learn about the inter-war years in a district of Cardiff in Wales? Read THE SECRET LIFE OF MARY JAMES, WELSHWOMAN, edited from Mary's childhood diaries by .jennings

'OW BIST? by Ceri Vyner steps back into her childhood in a 1950s Wiltshire village and uncovers lost landmarks and the stories of her neighbours whose lives continued unchanged from the Victorian era

HOME FRONT WICKHAM by David Warwick is the story of a wartime village preparing for D-Day. He uses his childhood memories and his mother's diaries to paint an extraordinarily vivid picture of 1940s daily life in rural Hampshire.

These books are out now. Featured artwork includes: Harlequin Vessel by (stoneware ceramic) and Clementine by Lorna Gray (oil on board, framed in oak). Oak dining table by

16/07/2025

This week's release is AFTER THE HORSES by Mary Griese. Hoping to reclaim the peace of her rural childhood, Margo moves with her husband to a remote corner of Gloucestershire. She is following her dream of working with horses, but finding her feet in this scattered community is harder than she thought. Warm, unflinching and funny, this is rural life stripped bare. Mary's writing is atmospheric and has overtones of rural classics Cider with Rosie blended with Cold Comfort Farm.

In this picture are reads and ceramics which have their heart rooted in the landscape:

AFTER THE HORSES by Mary Griese

ONE MOOR TIME by - non-fiction. Ben begins walking the Two Moors Way and sets out on a 15 year relationship with the uplands of Dartmoor and Exmoor

DRAGONFLIES by - many layered poetry about time and our many transformations throughout our lives

SWINDON MOUNTAIN by - sci-fi and archaeology in a sublime exploration of mystery, landscape and personal rediscovery

Ceramics from by

27/06/2025

Our current top selling titles based on UK high street bookshop sales ... A gorgeous mix of nature, history, travel and the great outdoors:

Swindon Mountain by - sci-fi meets archaeology when a mountain unexpectedly appears in the English countryside

One Moor Time by - a 15 year journey through the landscape of Dartmoor and Exmoor

Furry Tales by Rose Dunfield - basically a hug in a book, full of feline loveliness

Give Me The Mountains by Anne Swan - technically fiction but based so closely on fact, this reveals the world of Finishing Schools and debutante balls

Between Two Lives / Entre Deux Vies by .devic.author - poetry about rediscovering a forgotten sense of self in Paris

In bookshops now

20/06/2025

Our newest release is a brilliant pocketbook history of the crimes and punishments of a Victorian town. From the mid 18th century through to the early 20th century, the Gloucestershire town of Northleach has boasted its fair share of criminals.

Drawn from archives and legends, Deri Marshall uncovers their stories. How did a coach driver foil a robbery? What happened on election day in 1845? And who was sentenced to hard labour in the infamous Northleach gaol?

With maps and photographs of the principal locations

Northleach boasts an extraordinarily well-preserved prison, built in 1792 and seeing continual use throughout the Victorian period. This pocketbook history is a fascinating insight into law and order in rural England.

An account of the citizens of the town through their Misdeeds, Thefts, foul crimes against their Betters, petty Arguments, Breaches of the peace and Tales of Drunkenness in the oldest INNs of the Place.

29/05/2025

In this month's our very own Cotswold gardener reveals how her mission to transform her neglected Regency garden into a wildlife paradise is harder than she thought.

Her latest column, A GARDEN FIT FOR A KING, is in the June issue of Cotswold Life magazine - in newsagents and supermarkets now

Ps. We love how the pink typeface on the cover matches our vase of carnations, don't you?

illustrations kindly supplied by

08/05/2025

The call for submissions for our new anthology of short stories, memoir and poetry inspired by steam and rail travel ends on 29 May. Full information on our website

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Crumps Barn Studio is a publisher based in the Cotswolds in Gloucestershire, England. We publish memoir, fictionalised memoir and local history books. We bring you new and established authors who write just the sort of book you and your family will want to treasure and enjoy time and time again. Are you an author? Get in touch!