The Cabin’s innovative bed design includes a book nook where guests can dip into recently published books on craft as well as timeless classics on the pursuit of being a writer. We constantly evolve the books on offer and always welcome recommendations at the writer’s retreat. Titles which are on rotation in the library include:

• Your Story Matters by Nikesh Shukla
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Art and Fear by Ted Orland and David Bayliss
• How to Be a Poet edited by Jo Bell and Jane Commane
• The Pyjama Myth by Sian Meades-Williams
• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
• On Writing by AL Kennedy
• Letters to a Writer of Colour by Deepa Anappara and Taymour Soomro
• Mslexia Guide to Independent Presses
• How to Finish Your PhD by Catherine Pope
• Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook 2026
• Manifesto by Bernardine Evaristo

We also provide a deck of Oblique Strategies cards by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt in case you get stuck and are need of a sideways approach to your writing.

Additionally, we are delighted to display published books by writers who have chosen to retreat with us… Author guests we have hosted include:

• Sunday Times Bestselling novelist Clare Mackintosh
• American author and award-winning blogger Nathan Bransford who wrote this review about his stay here
• Leena Norms, Youtuber, producer and author of Half-Arse Human
• The Poetry Pharmacist and poet Deborah Alma
• Several authors based in Wales including: Sophie Buchaillard, Luca Paci and Kathryn Tann
• Our inaugural Write Within Resident, Elspeth Wilson