Our favourite books to curl up with at Brook Cottage in autumn

Autumn is the season Brook Cottage Shepherds Huts was made for. The site empties a little after the summer, the light turns golden over the fields, and the wood burner stops being optional. There's a particular quality to an autumn morning on the Llŷn Peninsula - cool, clear, the hills sharp against the sky - that makes the prospect of an afternoon indoors with something good feel not like a retreat but like a reward.

These are books for the kind of stay where you light the fire at four o'clock and feel entirely justified in doing so.

The Seven Sisters by Lucinda Riley. The first in Riley's sweeping multigenerational series, following a group of adopted sisters as they uncover the secrets of their pasts through stories rooted in different parts of the world. Rich, absorbing and enormously readable - the kind of novel that makes a long autumn weekend feel just slightly too short. If you haven't started the series, this is the moment.

A Terrible Kindness by Jo Browning Wroe. A novel about a young embalmer who volunteers to travel to Aberfan in October 1966, in the aftermath of the disaster that killed 116 children and 28 adults. What follows is a story about trauma, grief and the long, difficult work of healing - told with extraordinary tenderness. Heart-breaking in places, but ultimately a novel about the redemptive power of kindness and human connection. One of the most moving British novels of recent years.

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce. A man sets out to post a letter and ends up walking the length of England. It's about guilt, love, forgiveness and what happens when you finally stop and pay attention to the world around you. Gently funny in places and deeply moving in others - the kind of novel that stays with you long after you've finished it and gone back outside.

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman. Eleanor lives a life of rigid routine, eats the same lunch every day, and has no friends. Then something shifts. Funny, surprising and written with great warmth and intelligence, this is a novel about loneliness and connection that manages to be genuinely joyful without being sentimental. One of those books that works for almost everyone - and that people tend to press into each other's hands.

On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan. Short, perfectly crafted, and quietly devastating - a novel about a single evening that contains an entire relationship. Ideal for a long afternoon when you want something that stays with you.

Autumn is one of the best times to visit North Wales. The summer visitors have gone, the coastal paths are quiet, and Snowdonia takes on colours that no photograph does justice to. Portmeirion in October has an atmosphere entirely its own.

Back at the site, each of our five handcrafted luxury shepherd huts has everything you need for a long, unhurried evening - a cosy wood burner, en-suite, private outdoor space with a firepit /  BBQ for those still-mild evenings in early autumn.

Our dog-friendly huts Joan, Susanna and Angharad mean four-legged companions are very much part of the plan, and the peninsula's walking routes are at their most beautiful in October and November. Our adults-only site means the quiet here holds in a way that makes a week feel genuinely restorative.

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