Crumps Barn Studio

Crumps Barn Studio 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.

Caroline Bradley enjoyed a busy event at East Grinstead Bookshop earlier this month, where she was joined by friends and...
28/07/2026

Caroline Bradley enjoyed a busy event at East Grinstead Bookshop earlier this month, where she was joined by friends and passers-by to celebrate the release of her new book MAKING TRACKS

Making Tracks is the tale of a Globetrotting Grandma as she spends a lifetime journeying across Libya, the Sahara Desert and beyond.

The Bookshop

24/07/2026

It is the season for golden meadows and Sue Andrews reads from the fourth book in her shepherding series SHEEP FOR A REASON

In her fourth book in the If Clouds Were Sheep series, internationally renouned sheep farmer Sue Andrews takes a look at how a passion for wool has shaped the landscape of a nation

Some of our titles are for young readers AND grown-ups. Sometimes there is nothing more wonderful than reading a fantasy...
14/07/2026

Some of our titles are for young readers AND grown-ups. Sometimes there is nothing more wonderful than reading a fantasy adventure where you can be reasonably confident from the outset that the story won't have a horrible ending - don't you agree?

The Green Wolf Rider series from G.D. Howard promises:
Wolves✔️
Adventure✔️
Magic✔️
Brave heroine Holly battling to save her village✔️

09/07/2026

Episode One of our new podcast talks about Concrete Poetry as our editor take a closer look at the relationship between text and image in this fascinating poetry form

Featuring Geometry of Morning from debut collection DREAM LOGIC

Listen to the full episode on Substack - link in bio. Don't forget to give a follow for more bookish chat

Last year marked 200 years of modern rail travel and we celebrated by publishing an anthology of memories, short stories...
30/06/2026

Last year marked 200 years of modern rail travel and we celebrated by publishing an anthology of memories, short stories, poetry and history shorts. It's amazing how a small pocketbook can take you on a journey from Scotland to the foot of England, venture onto the Orient Express, and even back through time with a selection of previously unpublished photographs of heritage lines and engine sheds around the country.

steam enthusiast, railway journeys, heritage line, poetry community, fiction writing, non-fiction, pocket book

On 27 September 1825, the steam engine known as Locomotion No.1 hauled the first passenger train on the opening day of the Stockton & Darlington Railway - paving the way for modern rail travel and reshaping the British landscape for ever

"I have a passion for the desert"Caroline Bradley speaking to  on the  show on  on Sunday about her lifetime of journeyi...
25/06/2026

"I have a passion for the desert"

Caroline Bradley speaking to on the show on on Sunday about her lifetime of journeying.

Did you catch the interview? You can listen again on the BBC Radio Gloucestershire website - Caroline Martin's show on Sunday 21 June. Caroline Bradley is on air from about 1hr45 and you can hear how she came to earn her name as the 'globetrotting grandma'.

MAKING TRACKS by Caroline Bradley is in bookshops now, including and

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travel diary, memoir writing, scorpions, crossing the desert, the nomad within, life of adventure, woman abroad

10/06/2026

"Traveller, teacher, sailor spy - what do they have in common? Me." Author Caroline Bradley introduces her account of the lifelong journey which gave her the name Globetrotting Grandma

MAKING TRACKS features the deserts of the Sahara, working in Libya, and travels through Afghanistan, Tibet and more. It's the sort of book to inspire and entertain, reminding us of our adventurous side (the one our families often forget to see).

"The book's central theme is growing up in the Forest ... of talking about belonging, and growing up in spaces which hav...
08/06/2026

"The book's central theme is growing up in the Forest ... of talking about belonging, and growing up in spaces which have changed a lot over time"

Rose Day speaking to on about finding inspiration in the Forest of Dean.

Did you catch the interview? You can listen again on the BBC Radio Gloucestershire website - Caroline Martin's show on Sunday 7 June - Rose is on air from about 1hr20 and you can also catch her beautiful reading of poem 'Boar' from the collection.

VOREST by is in bookshops now, including

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live on air, poetry reading, landscape, poems about nature, nature writing, ecowriting, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, young writer, debut poet, poetry community

A super review for Satya Bosman's debut poetry collection DREAM LOGIC from Nigel Kent. 'Recurring concerns—unrealised po...
01/06/2026

A super review for Satya Bosman's debut poetry collection DREAM LOGIC from Nigel Kent.

'Recurring concerns—unrealised possibility, anxiety, failed agency, and grief—give Dream Logic a notable conceptual coherence. Bosman’s references to Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, and Sylvia Plath help to situate that coherence within a wider poetic lineage, though the collection does not merely imitate its forebears. One might locate Bosman between Dickinson’s inward metaphysical attentiveness, Plath’s psychological intensity, and Brontë’s emotional extremity, yet her work remains distinct in tone and method. Where those predecessors often move toward crisis, revelation, or visionary confrontation, Bosman is more interested in quieter forms of disturbance: hesitation rather than rupture'

You can read the full review on https://nigelkentpoet.wordpress.com/2026/05/30/review-of-dream-logic-by-satya-bosman/

DREAM LOGIC is in bookshops and online retailers now.
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poetry review, literary criticism, debut poet, poets of Instagram, mindfulness, grief, loss, interior life, stillness, past relationships, healing, loneliness, companionship, solitude, creative writing, author, writers of Instagram, Oxfordshire, spectral women, feminism

Signed copies of MAKING TRACKS in Waterstones Cirencester  now.'The nomad within and the journey call to me still'Travel...
14/05/2026

Signed copies of MAKING TRACKS in Waterstones Cirencester now.

'The nomad within and the journey call to me still'

Travelling by road, rail and sea, and carrying everything she needs with her, including a healthy sense of the ridiculous, Caroline sets out in the 1970s on a lifelong adventure around the globe. This is a journey which will take in working in Libya, backpacking across Afghanistan, India and Thailand, and voyaging deep into the wild reaches of the Sahara Desert with just her husband Graham by her side in their ageing Land Rover.

It’s time to exchange sensible shoes for hiking boots; security, warmth, a comfy bed and food on her plate for adventure and the uncertainty of life on the road, as Caroline finds herself making tracks once again.

Humorous, warm and full of wild landscapes: this is the story of a lifelong journey that will make you want to pack your bags and follow in the footsteps of the Globetrotting Grandma

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