Barrie & Jenkins was a small British publishing house that was formed in 1964 from the merger of "Herbert Jenkins" (founded by English writer Herbert George Jenkins

Herbert George Jenkins

Herbert George Jenkins was a British writer and the owner of the publishing company Herbert Jenkins Ltd. His writing style varied from mystery to comedy and popular non-fiction. Two of his novels and several of his short stories were made into short movies...

) and "Barrie & Rockcliffe". One of their most notable authors was P. G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse

Sir Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, KBE was an English humorist, whose body of work includes novels, short stories, plays, poems, song lyrics, and numerous pieces of journalism. He enjoyed enormous popular success during a career that lasted more than seventy years and his many writings continue to be...

 whose titles came from the "Herbert Jenkins" portfolio of writers.

The company had a short commercial history and was taken over by Hutchinson

Hutchinson (publisher)

Hutchinson & Co. was an English book publisher, founded in 1887. The company merged with Century Publishing in 1985 to form Century Hutchinson, and was folded into the British Random House Group in 1989, where it remains as an imprint in the Cornerstone Publishing division...

, who were themselves taken over by Century and then by Random House

Random House

Random House, Inc. is the largest general-interest trade book publisher in the world. It has been owned since 1998 by the German private media corporation Bertelsmann and has become the umbrella brand for Bertelsmann book publishing. Random House also has a movie production arm, Random House Films,...

(now owned by Bertelsmann).

It continues to exist as a specialist imprint mainly for hardback editions within the Random House stable.