Summer 2026: Five day June poetry retreat with Jonathan Edwards and Fiona Benson (fully booked);

Develop Your Book Idea in August and October (1 or 2 places still available)

Adharanand Finn, author of Running with the Kenyans, confirmed as guest speaker for DYBI August.

With yoga, walking, super healthy food, wood-fired sauna and cold plunge.

A place to connect with your natural environment, with your body, with others, and with your creativity.

A place to be.

Join novelist and Bloomsbury mentor, Natalie Young and other writers in a secluded valley in mid Devon for tutored courses and independent retreats.

A woman with long brown hair and earrings resting her face on her hand outdoors on a sunny day. She is wearing a red, textured sweater and has a thoughtful expression. The background features a stone wall and a partly cloudy sky.
A rural landscape with green rolling hills, trees, and several houses, including modern and rustic styles, under an overcast sky.
View of a bright window with a landscape of rolling green hills and trees, a wooden desk with lamps, bowls and plants, and a patterned rug on the floor.

Novels written by Natalie Young, published by Little Brown, Tinder Press, and Short Books in the UK.

A terrific novel….a brilliant and literal dissection of a marriage – The Times.

A compulsively readable tale exploring the darkest desires of humanity and the discontent simmering beneath seemingly serene surfaces.’- The Observer

Book cover titled 'Season to Taste or How to Eat Your Husband' by Natalie Young, featuring an illustration of a fork and a knife with ornate handles.

How extraordinary is the mind of the writer. Natalie Young has created a near-Gothic story of obsession and desire, set against the background of a sinister chateau, in both postwar and contemporary France. Definitely not for the faint-hearted... A true tour de force. --Mavis Cheek

Ensnares the reader in an eerie web of elusive family secrets in an atmospheric French village --The Times

Book cover with a side profile of a woman with shoulder-length hair. Title reads "We All Ran into the Sunlight" by Natalie Young.