The Bookshop Cat – Episode 2: A Staying-Still Night

The Bookshop Cat — Episode 2 Tonight's reading is free. Over 500 more — and every new one first — are on Sleepbound Premium. Free for 7 days, cancel any time.→ Supercast: sleepboundstudios.supercast.com→ Patreon: patreon.com/c/SleepBound Tonight, Mittens skips her patrol. The rain has come in soft against the window, and there is only one place to be — the butter-coloured armchair at the back of the shop, with its reader-shaped dip in the seat.Where Episode 1 took us on the full evening circuit — fiction, poetry, history, the front window glow — this one stays still. One chair, one lamp, one book left open on the low table between the armchairs. The brass clock ticks above the door. The rain does what rain does on the kindest of evenings. Alex narrates with exactly the quiet warmth the night calls for.Thanks for keeping this open for all of us. Sweet dreams.— Ian & Alex