Sleepbound Nights

The Toast Maker — Episode 23 By Eliza Hartley 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, the village WhatsApp has been awake since before breakfast — the Christmas lights competition is two days out, Mrs Henderson is chairing, and a seven-foot inflatable Santa is under formal dispute. Tom ties his boots and slips out the back before any of it can find him. He's heading to his father's bench in the Back Lane workshop with a cherry off-cut, a 1979 mitre box, and the wedding invitation he promised to frame before Christmas Day. We left them at the end of the longest night — Iris's words in the dark, and Tom's answer. This episode sits in the morning after: quiet, practical, and full. Thanks for keeping this open for all of us. Sweet dreams.— Ian & Alex Includes mentions of: Mention of Loss, Romance, Beverages, Animals, Weather.

Green Hollow — Episode 1 By Margery Cole 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 The hay in the Long Meadow is ripe, the dew is heavy on the gate, and before first light Green Hollow Farm is already stirring. Tonight, Captain the old shire horse goes down the field in harness alongside the new grey Ferguson, and everyone finds their place in the longest, warmest day of the farming year. This is the first evening at Green Hollow — the Weavers, their two live-in hands, a long breakfast at the scrubbed deal table before the work begins, tea carried out to the field in the afternoon heat, a far rumble of thunder that keeps its distance, and the farm settling to sleep at last as soft rain comes down on the shorn meadow. Thank you for being here at the very start of this. We hope you drift off somewhere in the middle of the day's long, quiet work. Take care, everybody. And I'll see you soon.

The Toast Maker — Episode 22 By Eliza Hartley 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 A cake under a tea towel was, she thought, one of the most comforting objects in domestic life. It said: there is a cake. The cake is here. The cake will be eaten. The snow is still falling on the morning of the shortest day. Iris is putting on lipstick for Tom's mother. Tom is carrying the cake.Tonight, they walk Mary's chocolate cake through the village to Millfield Road — where Margaret has swept the path twice, the navy apron is on, and a plate that has been waiting ninety years is finally ready to receive it.Mr Pritchard is already at the table. The beef is better than the one at Tom's twenty-first. And before the cake is cut, Tom says something about Mary.Thanks for keeping this open for all of us. Sweet dreams.— Ian & Alex Includes mentions of: Food, Weather, Mention of Loss, Animals, Beverages.

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

The Toast Maker — Episode 21 By Eliza Hartley 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 The world had been muffled overnight. Tonight, Little Darlow is buried under December snow, and Emily's cephalopod presentation is still on. It would take a meteor to cancel it, and Emily knows this. Last time: Tom came home through the first snow with a Norwegian spruce, and Iris finally told him about Mary's second card. This morning, the tree is still undecorated in its corner, and there is somewhere to be. There are pipe-cleaner tentacles, hand-drawn suckers, a tin of ginger biscuits, and Mr Pritchard in a hat he has owned since 1974. Eight people will undulate on command before the morning is over. In Rose's kitchen afterwards, something quieter — a button finally pressed, and what it costs to say it out loud. Thanks for keeping this open for all of us. Sweet dreams.— Ian & Alex Includes mentions of: Snow, Animals, Food, Beverages, Romance.

The Toast Maker — Episode 20 By Eliza Hartley 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 Friday morning at Elder Cottage. Tom's taken the van out to Greater Darlow — hardware errands, a Christmas tree from a farm past Bramley he's been going to since he was about Emily's age. He's promised a small one. Iris has her doubts. She's alone now, in a kitchen she cleared twice out of nerves, with Mary's recipe box open and the Emergency Chocolate Cake card weighted by the salt mill. It's the first recipe she'll actually make. She's been reading it for days. Eat the cake in a lit room, with both hands, never as punishment. And outside, very quietly, the sky is doing something it hasn't done yet this winter. Narrated in Ian's warm, unhurried voice — perfect company for a December kitchen and the first snow falling soft past the window. Thanks for keeping this open for all of us. Sweet dreams.— Ian & Alex Includes mentions of: Baking, Food, Beverages, First Snow, Mention of Loss.

The Toast Maker — Episode 19 By Eliza Hartley 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 Welcome back to Little Darlow — or rather, tonight, a little further along Darlow Road than usual. Episode 18 left us with something tender and weighty: Mary's recipe box on the shelf, and the quiet that follows a good cry in good company. Tonight we step outside into a Thursday morning in mid-December, the frost having turned the village into somewhere that needs to be stepped into carefully. Iris joins the walking group and falls into step beside Helen Marsh. They've walked together perhaps six times, but conversation has never quite grown beyond two sentences. Today something feels different — the frost, the cold air, the weight of having been written to by a stranger. Something is finally being allowed. After three miles past Cobb's Farm and up the hill, Helen doesn't turn toward the village hall. She turns toward the B&B on Darlow Road instead — sage cabinets, an old French range, a slate hallway, a line of crocuses not yet risen. She walked the way she stood: as if she'd thought about it once long ago and decided this was the way she was going to walk, and never had cause to revisit the decision. Thank you for being here, and for making quiet evenings like this one possible. Sleepbound Patreon · headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights · YouTube Includes mentions of: Weather, Food, Beverages, Mention of Loss.

Downton Abbey: The Thirties — Episode 2 By Hugo Ashcombe 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 Welcome back to Downton, and thank you for being here for Episode 2. Last time, we settled into the new order — Mary running the estate alongside Tom, Robert inventing botanical excuses to visit his old home, Cora quietly sending money across the Atlantic to rescue her brother, and the dressing gong ringing for an audience of one. Tonight carries us through Wednesday and Thursday. Mary sets Henry Talbot's solicitor's letter in front of Tom: £1,100 for the motor business, the final thread of a marriage that ended long before the paperwork caught up. Tom signs without hesitation — and that tells you everything. Then Edith arrives. Two suitcases, Marigold, and something she isn't quite ready to say. The sisters begin their patient circling — hints dropped and deflected, old instincts tested against newer affections. By Thursday evening, the dining room holds eight for the first time since Mary took the house. "The armistice was holding. Neither of them was fool enough to call it peace." Content Timing 00:00 — Welcome and settling in 0:07 — Company 45:13 — Soft music to drift away Downton Abbey: The Thirties is an original fan fiction continuation, written in affectionate tribute — not affiliated with ITV or any official Downton production. As a Patreon supporter, your episode download is yours to keep. If you love the world of Downton, our sister channel Sleepbound also carries a prequel series set in the Abbey's earlier years — well worth a visit. Patreon · YouTube · Website Includes mentions of: Mention of Loss, Family Tension, Children, Food, Travel, Financial Matters.

The Toast Maker — Episode 18 By Eliza Hartley 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 After last week's Christmas fair — scones sold out, the tombola wine scandal quietly resolved, and Mr Pritchard's Wednesday handover confirmed — tonight we arrive at the moment this story has been building toward all along. Iris has cleared a shelf. Not just tidied: made room, deliberately, carefully, for something that matters. "For evenings when the world is too much and you need something that doesn't ask questions." That's Mary Pritchard's emergency recipe — one chocolate cake, nothing else — and it captures everything this episode is. The walnut box arrives at eleven, and what unfolds is fifty-seven years of a woman's handwriting: recipe cards stained with butter and flour, margins full of sharp wit, private jokes, and a quiet instruction to hide the salt mill from Arthur. This one is going to stay with you. If you haven't subscribed yet, now is the time — you'll want the full journey behind you before this shelf comes into view. Thank you for being here, and for making every episode possible. Support on Patreon · Sleepbound Nights on YouTube · headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Mention of Loss, Animals.

Downton Abbey: The Thirties — Episode 1 By Hugo Ashcombe 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 Habits are the refuge of the unimaginative, Mary. I have always preferred rituals — they require better shoes. Welcome to Episode 1 of Downton Abbey: The Thirties — an original fan fiction continuation, written and produced independently. Not affiliated with the official Downton Abbey franchise. It is July 1930, three weeks since Robert and Cora retreated to the Dower House, and Mary wakes to a quieter Downton — and a solicitor's letter she is not quite ready to open. She and Tom work through troubled estate accounts, confronting dairy prices that are quietly devastating the tenantry, while word arrives that the neighbouring Broughton Park has sold to an unknown London buyer. At the Dower House, Robert invents reasons to visit his old home; Cora quietly dispatches £2,400 to rescue her brother Harold from an old scandal; and Anna, visibly pregnant and due in August, settles into the garden while Bates reads childcare books in terrified silence. This episode is yours to download and keep — one of the perks of supporting on Patreon. And if you love Downton, our sister channel Sleepbound carries an original prequel series set in the earlier years of the Abbey. Content Timing 00:00 – Welcome and settling in 0:39 – High Summer 40:56 – Soft music to drift away Support the show: Patreon Watch on YouTube: Sleepbound Nights Full audiobook library: headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Animals, History, Mention of Loss, Weather.

Howl's Moving Castle — Episode 4: The Heart Remembers Fan fiction based on the series by Diana Wynne Jones 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 The castle didn't think. It felt. Welcome back to Sleepbound Nights. Tonight we're close to home — Calcifer is holding things together in the Moving Castle while Sophie makes her way to Stump End and Howl is somewhere in Kingsbury's mirrors. The castle has been building toward something for weeks: pipes droning, furniture drifting, the front door sealing itself to a nowhere-setting when it doesn't care for visitors. Tonight that tension breaks. When Tamsin arrives from Keeper's Cottage with soup and a strange discovery — the cottage appears to be writing Edith's old recipes on the inside of its cupboard doors, some of them looking very much like spells — the castle's jealousy of its small neighbour sharpens. And Calcifer, who spent years as this building's literal heart, decides it's time for a frank conversation with four walls and a very stubborn roof. Episode 4 of our fan fiction series, narrated by Jamie in his warm, unhurried style. New here? Start with the two full fan fiction novels first: The Winter King and The Witch's Halloween Masquerade. Thank you for being here. Sleep well. Content Timing 00:00 — Welcome and settling in 0:07 — The Heart Remembers 39:32 — Soft music to drift away Support on Patreon · YouTube · Website Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Animals, Light Peril, Mention of Loss.

The Toast Maker — Episode 17 By Eliza Hartley 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 Welcome back to Little Darlow. If last week's episode left you with warm feelings about a certain blue-doored house and a very decisive question asked over cheese scones and crumbs, tonight picks up exactly where that landed — and Iris has been up since six, counting scones. Episode 17 brings the Little Darlow Christmas Fair: forty-eight scones (twenty-four plain, twenty-four cheese), a colour-coded timetable with a mysterious yellow category nobody can explain, and Mrs Henderson in a high-visibility vest conducting the entire operation with the quiet certainty of someone who absolutely did not say she'd be doing everything this year. Tom has been assigned to Carrying Things. Emily is running stall twelve with her hand-drawn marine reptile bookmark enterprise and official laminated adoption certificates. Rose has arrived with trapezoid flapjacks and her best trapezoid energy. "Early for nine is eight fifty. This is early for half eight, which is just anxious." Cosy, funny, and full of the small moments that make this village feel genuinely real. Get comfortable and let December in Little Darlow do the rest. All episodes at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights. Thank you for supporting Sleepbound Nights — this one's for you. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Animals, Weather.

Howl's Moving Castle — Episode 3 Fan fiction — inspired by the series by Diana Wynne Jones 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 "Informal events were where people actually formed opinions about you — and opinions, in Abdullah's experience, were much harder to control than protocols." Welcome back to Sleepbound Nights. We've watched Sophie's quiet mornings in the Moving Castle grow into something larger — a walking cottage with a broken heart, a farmer who accidentally rearranged his own ten-acre field, and twelve letters sent out into Ingary. Tonight, we step sideways into a thatched cottage outside Kingsbury, where Abdullah and Flower-in-the-Night are hosting their very first diplomatic reception. The flowers have their own opinions. The silverware — on loan from the palace — is running on protocols from 120 years ago. And Howl has arrived early, which means the sulking castle has locked him out and he's brought news of Sophie's expanding letter campaign and the castle's escalating jealousy. New to the series? This is original fan fiction set in the world of Diana Wynne Jones's Howl's Moving Castle. You might want to start with the two full-length fan fiction novels — The Winter King and The Witch's Halloween Masquerade — before joining us here. Narrated by Jamie in that warm, unhurried storytelling voice — the kind made for long winter evenings. Find the full series at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights. Settle in. Content Timing 00:00 — Welcome and settling in 0:07 — The Ambassador's Evening 52:58 — Soft music to drift away

Howl's Moving Castle — Episode 2 By Diana Wynne Jones 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 Welcome back to Sleepbound Nights, and to the wandering world of Howl's Moving Castle. If you're just joining us — before diving in, we'd recommend our two fan fiction novels set in this world: The Winter King and The Witch's Halloween Masquerade. They'll deepen everything that follows. In Episode 1, a small stone cottage walked itself to Market Chipping, and Sophie helped it grieve and find a new home. Tonight we pick up four days later. Sophie has been sorting a growing pile of letters from people seeking the castle's help, and she's made a decision: she's going to answer one. She chooses the letter from Amos Cotter, a farmer in Stump End whose field has been rearranging itself every night since Christmas. And she's not going alone — Calcifer is coming too, tucked in a glass bowl, stepping outside for the first time in longer than either of them expected. Narrated by Jamie in a warm, unhurried voice that suits a story best told on a winter evening. "You'd get to go outside." She said it simply, without emphasis, the way she said things when she meant them most. Content Timing 00:00 — Welcome and settling in 0:07 — The Stump End Letter 44:52 — Soft music to drift away New to the series? Start with our fan fiction novels set in this world: The Winter King — The Witch's Halloween Masquerade Support the channel on Patreon — browse all episodes at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights — and find us on YouTube. Includes mentions of: Animals, Beverages, Food, Light Peril, Mention of Loss, Travel.

Howl's Moving Castle — Episode 1 By Diana Wynne Jones 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 Sophie was beginning to think the castle was sulking. Welcome back to Sleepbound Nights — and welcome to the beginning of something new. This is Howl's Moving Castle: The Series, a fan fiction continuation set in Diana Wynne Jones's beloved Ingary, narrated by Jamie in the warm, unhurried storytelling voice that suits long winter evenings by the fire. If you're new to the series, we strongly recommend starting with the two fan fiction novels that set the stage — The Winter King (listen here) and The Witches' Halloween Masquerade (listen here) — before settling into tonight's episode. In Episode 1, life in the Moving Castle is wonderfully, chaotically ordinary: Howl's hair is perfect, Calcifer is grumbling about pipes with opinions, and Morgan is setting things on fire at the breakfast table. Then a stone cottage walks itself across two valleys and parks outside the front door — bringing with it one sharp, exhausted bookkeeper named Tamsin Bell, and nothing particularly ordinary after that. Thank you for supporting this channel. Your generosity is what makes these stories possible. Content Timing 00:00 – Welcome and settling in 0:07 – The House That Walked 40:25 – Soft music to drift away New episodes every week on Sleepbound Nights. Full catalogue at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights. Support the channel on Patreon. Includes mentions of: Mention of Loss, Beverages, Animals.

The Toast Maker — Episode 16 By Eliza Hartley 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 Welcome back to Sleepbound Nights, and to Back Lane. Last time, Iris and Rose found their way to The King's Head — real fires, chips sent over unprompted — and somewhere in the warmth between them, past the jokes and the careful circling, they got honestly close. Rose said it plainly: I didn't have a friend. Iris carried that home through December dark, back to Tom and the sofa and Moss claiming his wedge of cushion. Tom, quiet and easy beside her, mentioned that the roof would be done by Friday. Tonight is Friday. Dave's crew arrives at seven, same as every morning for the past three weeks. The ridge tiles go on. Kevin — three weeks of creative tape-measure work behind him — picks up his measure and gets thirty-eight centimetres three times running, which Dave receives with theatrical disbelief. And Dave, who has roofed for twenty-eight years and is not a man given to sentiment, climbs down for the last time, extends his hand, and says something Tom will carry for a long time. Your father built a good house. We just put a proper hat on it. Settle in. The roof is done. New episodes every week on YouTube. The full library is at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights. And if you're here on Patreon — thank you. You're what makes this possible. Includes mentions of: Mention of Loss, Beverages, Food, Weather.

The Toast Maker — Episode 15 By Eliza Hartley 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 December dark — the kind that arrived at four and settled in like it owned the place. Hello, lovely listeners — welcome back to The Toast Maker. We've been through quite a lot with Iris and Tom over the past few episodes — attics and old tools, Emily's marine reptile presentation with its chopstick pointer, and Margaret's kitchen table, where a quiet "you'll do" said more than most speeches ever could. It's been tender, and a little heavy, in the best possible way. Tonight, Iris steps out alone into the December dark for a long-overdue evening with Rose at The King's Head. It's warm inside, the logs are actually burning, and Gerald — the enormous, banned cat — is conducting a dignified protest on the wall outside with great commitment and absolutely no shame. This is a quieter episode, in the way a proper pub evening with a good friend is quiet: unhurried conversation, decent red wine, laughter that comes from somewhere low and surprised. The kind of night that reminds you what you've been missing. Settle in, get comfortable, and let the fire do the rest. Thank you for being here — your support makes every episode of The Toast Maker possible, and every cosy evening in a little warmer. Patreon · YouTube · Website Includes mentions of: Beverages, Food, Animals, Cold weather, Mention of loss.

The Toast Maker — Episode 14 By Eliza Hartley 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 Tom changes his shirt twice before they leave — settling on the blue one, hole near the cuff, sleeves rolled to hide it. Because it's Sunday lunch at Margaret's, and there are cloth napkins. And Tom, for all his flannel shirts and muddy boots, still wants his mother to think he's doing all right. We left last week quietly — Emily's fossil poster still on Iris's wall, Mr Pritchard gently sorting through things. Tonight carries that tenderness forward. In Episode 14, Iris steps into Margaret's kitchen on Millfield Road — into pencil marks on a doorframe, stories about John, a December calendar with their names written in capitals. When Tom is sent off briefly to check on his own house, Margaret speaks plainly to Iris about her son: what he carries alone, and what Iris's presence has meant to him. And then, in the way of a woman who doesn't waste words: "You'll do." From Margaret, that's everything. Settle in, get comfortable, and let this one carry you. Thank you for making this series possible. Find us on YouTube and at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights for the full series. Your support on Patreon keeps the story going. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Mention of Loss, Family.

The Compartment with the Warm Lamp — A Sleep Story By Jenny Strictlen 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 Jenny Strictlen is a British writer whose meticulous historical research makes his sleep-focused audio fiction feel warmly, quietly real. Welcome to tonight's story — and what a story it is to settle into. It is April 1911. Eleanor Graves boards a first-class sleeping carriage at Victoria Station carrying nothing but a travelling case and three weeks of stubborn, grinding insomnia. She has tried tonics and long walks through Hyde Park. She has done arithmetic on the ceiling in the small hours. Nothing has worked. So she has arrived at a quietly desperate theory: that sleep is not a condition of the body, but of the place — and that the right place might be a gently rocking compartment with clean Belgian linen, a careful steward who reads between the lines of a letter, and a lamp with a green glass shade turned to its lowest, warmest glow. Perhaps sleep was not a condition of the body at all — but of the place. Jenny Strictlen writes with the patience and precision of someone who truly understands what a tired mind needs. This story asks nothing of you — only that you close your eyes and let the train carry you. The lamp is set to low. Settle in. Thank you for being here — your support is what makes these quiet, carefully made stories possible. Find the full Sleepbound Nights library at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights, explore our YouTube channel, or share the series with someone who needs a good night's rest via Patreon. Sweet dreams, and thank you for listening. Includes mentions of: Insomnia, Travel, Beverages, Food, Mild financial concern.

The Toast Maker — Episode 13 By Eliza Hartley 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 After the emotional weight of yesterday — Mr. Pritchard's confessions, Tom's call to Margaret, the letter none of them were quite ready for — Saturday arrives with something quietly miraculous: morning light through hard-cut curtains, Marmite toast, and a seven-year-old who has Things To Say about marine reptiles. Tom heads off to check cedar boards, and Iris opens her cottage to Emily's meticulously prepared presentation — complete with a hand-lettered PRESENTER lanyard, a chopstick pointer, cue cards, and a poster that declares in emphatic red: marine reptiles are NOT dinosaurs. Mr. Pritchard settles into his armchair like a man who bought a front-row ticket and intends to get his money's worth. Moss, as ever, has his own agenda. This is the kind of episode that makes you remember why cozy fiction exists — not to escape life, but to savour the moments that feel almost too good to be true. Get comfortable. The Presentation is about to begin. A seven-year-old with cue cards about marine reptiles. That was a manageable amount of world. Content Timing 00:00 – Welcome and settling in 05:51 – Episode 13: The Presentation 1:11:03 – Soft music to close Thank you for being here — your support is what keeps Sleepbound Nights going, one quiet chapter at a time. Patreon · YouTube · Website Includes mentions of: Food, Animals, Romance, Mention of Loss.

The Toast Maker — Episode 12 By Eliza Hartley 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 Welcome back to Sleepbound Nights, and thank you for being here. We're twelve episodes in now, and something has quietly shifted between Tom and Iris. Last week, Iris took her first real step into village life — the Thursday walking group, a commitment she made out loud and meant. Tom has been there at Elder Cottage through it all, slowly becoming part of the fabric of her days. Tonight, though, Tom goes back to his own house. The builders knocked off early, and he finds himself alone in the rooms where he grew up. In the attic, sorting through boxes sealed too long, he comes across his father John's old tools, meticulous invoices recording quiet acts of generosity he never knew about, and then — tucked behind the last page of a photo album — a letter his mother wrote before he was born. Come home safe. M. This is the kind of episode that settles gently and stays with you. Enjoy it. Thank you for supporting The Toast Maker. It genuinely makes it possible to keep going. Support on Patreon Sleepbound Nights on YouTube headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights Includes mentions of: Mention of loss, Old photographs, Family history, Beverages.

The Toast Maker — Episode 11 By Eliza Hartley 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 "Voluntary socializing. The most terrifying kind." Welcome back to Little Darlow, lovely listeners. Tonight, Iris takes a leap — the kind that looks small on paper but feels enormous in the moment. After spotting that notice at the surgery during last week's walk with Mr Pritchard, she's actually going. The Thursday Walking Group. Three miles, strangers in waterproofs, and Derek Fenton, who talks about birds like they owe him money. If you've been following along, you'll know Iris has been quietly weaving herself into village life — Tom in the spare room, Mr Pritchard's soup recipe on the hob, the cottage slowly becoming home. Tonight she takes another thread and ties it in. What I love about this episode is how beautifully ordinary it is. There's no drama on the hill above Cobb's Farm — just cold air, honest conversation, and the reliable warmth of people who show up every Thursday because that's simply what they do. And afterward: terrible tea, Hobnobs, and the peculiar intimacy of a cold village hall. Settle in and let the walk carry you. Thank you for being here — your support on Patreon is what keeps Sleepbound Nights going, one quiet story at a time. Find more cosy listening at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights, and catch up on the full series over on YouTube. Sleep well tonight. Includes mentions of: Cold weather, Animals, Romance, Food, Beverages.

The Toast Maker — Episode 10 By Eliza Hartley 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 Welcome back to Little Darlow — to frost on the rooftops and a cold so clean it smells of nothing at all. When we left Iris last time, Tom had just moved into her spare room. Two cups on the draining board. A domestic life, quietly beginning. Tonight she steps out of the cottage entirely: she's walking Mr Pritchard to his surgery appointment on a sharp November morning, escaping — gratefully — a debate between Tom and Dave about the correct philosophy of nails. Along the way, there's a goodbye kiss so casual it barely registers. A robin on a gatepost. A toddler in the waiting room who has very strong opinions about his toy car. And then a bakery, a sausage roll, and thirty years of Wednesday routines that say far more about quiet loneliness and love than Mr Pritchard would ever put into words. Episode 10 is gentle and unhurried — exactly the kind of Wednesday morning worth settling in for. She'd felt something settle in her chest that she couldn't have named — but didn't need to. Thank you for being here, and for making The Toast Maker possible. Find the full series on YouTube and at headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights. And if you know someone who could use a slow Wednesday morning — Patreon is always open. Sleep well. Includes mentions of: Medical appointments, Cold weather, Food, Beverages, Mention of loss, Mild romance.

The Toast Maker — Episode 9 By Eliza Hartley 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 Welcome back to Sleepbound Nights, and to the quiet, comforting world of Little Darlow. Last episode, Tom's long-neglected roof finally forced his hand — and in a tender, understated moment, Iris offered him her spare room. A practical arrangement. Sensible. The kind of thing adults do without making a fuss. Except, of course, the fuss was already happening. Tonight's episode opens on a Sunday morning, Iris hovering in the spare room doorway with her coffee going cold, second-guessing every towel count and lamp position. The ordinary rituals of toast, marmalade and Moss keep her tethered while her nerves quietly spiral. A lunchtime visit from Mr. Pritchard — warm, unhurried, gently honest — helps her see her anxiety for what it is: not a warning, just the ordinary feeling of letting someone in. And then Tom arrives. Damp, self-conscious, carrying a duffel bag, a toolbox, and his mother's recipes. "Note: H. leaves towels on the bathroom floor. Not worth fighting about. Just pick them up." Thank you for being here tonight. This story only exists because of your support, and I'm so grateful for every one of you. Settle in, get comfortable, and let Little Darlow take care of the rest. More from Sleepbound Nights YouTube: @sleepboundnights Patreon: patreon.com/cw/SleepBound Website: headphonesaudiobooks.com/nights Includes mentions of: Mention of Loss, Illness, Animals, Food, Beverages, Weather.

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 Borrowed lantern. Muddy path. The salt marshes of the Camargue at dusk, with flamingos pale and still somewhere out across the shallows. You've had a week of towns that blurred together — and now a researcher named Léa is walking ahead through the dark, and something stubborn in you keeps following. Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Animals, Travel, Light Peril, Food. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 It's the Monday after the harvest festival, and Tom has kept his word — the roofer is coming Thursday. Tonight, Mr Pritchard stops by for tea and quietly mentions his heart. And at three o'clock, Iris walks down the road to meet Margaret, who has been awake since six debating which biscuits to put out. Includes mentions of: Illness, Medical appointments, Mention of loss, Beverages, Animals, Romance. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Soft ferry-pitch. The island of Comino rises from turquoise water — bare, golden, barely populated. Harriet has come here from London to stop narrating her own exhaustion. On her first morning she finds something in the shallows: a worn ceramic shard with a ghost of blue glaze, and a stranger who collects what the sea gives back. Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Travel, Food, Beverages, Animals, History. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 The 11:47 to Morrington Cross isn't coming. Clara is the last passenger left at Hartwell Station — coat too thin, phone dead, her mother in hospital somewhere she can't reach. Then she finds a note tucked in a back corridor, and a pair of stairs that seem to have been waiting for her. Includes mentions of: Illness, Mention of Loss, Travel, Animals. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Soft almond flour, a simmering orange, the first snow of November pressing against the kitchen glass. Tonight, Farah is baking a whole-orange cake for the new baby four doors along — and an unreliable oven is the only thing standing in her way. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Weather, Mention of Loss. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Picture Brick Lane at three in the morning: shuttered curry houses, a fox crossing the road, and one window glowing gold. Mira has been awake for eleven nights, walking London's empty streets. Then the smell of bread reaches her — warm, yeasty, almost maternal. Inside, an old baker works his dough and sees her at the glass. He gestures: come in. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Animals, Mention of Loss. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Soft limestone and still air. A Paris courtyard on a slow spring morning, a fountain newly filled after winter — and at the bottom of the basin, a small brass key that doesn't belong to anyone Marianne knows. So she puts on her shoes and starts asking around. Includes mentions of: Bodies of Water, Food, Beverages, Animals, History. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Picture a small coastal town in the Philippines, just as the evening rain moves in. You weren't supposed to stop here — the bus broke down, the itinerary is already lost — but a woman selling mangoes beneath a tarp beckons you in from the wet street, and without quite meaning to, you begin to let go. Includes mentions of: Travel, Weather, Food, Beverages. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Rain at the windows, Moss by the radiator, and two o'clock on the dot: Mr Pritchard arrives to teach Iris the recipe Mary never shared with anyone. The kitchen warms slowly, the oranges give off that sharp, bright smell, and a November afternoon turns into something worth remembering. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Animals, Mention of Loss, Weather. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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, we step off the train at a quiet Welsh junction, where the waiting room is closed and the rain falls soft against the iron canopy. Mair has forty minutes to spare, a tin of saffron buns, and a promise to keep — and beneath the far bench, someone has left a copper kettle, still warm. Includes mentions of: Mention of Loss, Food, Beverages, Weather, Animals, Light Peril, Travel. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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, Miriam steps off a ferry onto a rotting jetty and walks toward a research station that's been silent for thirty-seven years — or almost silent. Down in the flooded labs, creatures are arranging their light into constellations. An AI has been teaching them. She's been waiting a long time to show someone. Includes mentions of: Bodies of water, Mention of loss, Weather. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 The church in Little Darlow is cold on a November morning — honest cold, coming up through stone floors and old pews. Iris slips into a back row with no firm plan. By the time she gets home, she's somehow agreed to scones, learned something tender about Tom, and eaten biscuits with Mr Pritchard in the rain. Includes mentions of: Religious traditions, Mention of loss, Food, Beverages, Animals, Weather, Illness. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Tatami underfoot. Cold mountain air, and the scent of plum blossoms you haven't found yet. You're awake before the bell in a temple lodging, and somewhere at the end of the corridor, a monk is waiting. Includes mentions of: Travel, Religious traditions, Animals, Mention of loss, Weather. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian & Alex

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 The morning after drinks with Tom, Iris is making toast and replaying "sometimes things do" until it loses meaning. Mr Pritchard heads to the doctor in his good coat. The village watches. By Saturday there are pansies at the market, frost on the fence, and a first kiss. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Animals, Romance, Mention of Illness, Weather. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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's story is The Lilac Letters — a soft spoken audiobook for sleep by Jenny Strictlen, read on Sleepbound Nights. Eleanor Ashworth finds a carved wooden box in her garden shed on her first week of retirement. It smells, impossibly, of lilacs. Eleanor has just moved into the old family house on Willowmere Lane — retired, unhurried, expecting nothing more eventful than clearing out the shed — when she finds it: a small carved wooden box carrying the faint, out-of-season scent of lilacs on an ordinary grey afternoon. Inside are dozens of love letters, written in careful ink from a woman named Margaret to a Ruth Ashworth, dated 1952 through 1955. Ruth's replies are nowhere to be found. Eleanor investigates the way Eleanor investigates things — quietly, over tea with Agnes at the village tea shop, through the hush of the library with Judith, and eventually through Dorothy Price, who remembers more than she first lets on. The mystery doesn't announce itself. It unfolds the way old paper does: slowly, and with great care. This is a slow, mid-century village audiobook for sleep — soft spoken. No drama. No twists. Just the scent of lilacs drifting from a garden shed, the rustle of letters on old paper, and a quiet afternoon in an English village that still holds its secrets close. About fifty minutes, read at a bedtime pace. ───────────────────────── 🕯️ ABOUT THIS STORY ───────────────────────── Eleanor Ashworth returns to the family house on Willowmere Lane in retirement and discovers a carved wooden box of hidden love letters — written from 1952 to 1955 by a woman named Margaret to a Ruth Ashworth, revealing a secret same-sex relationship folded carefully within the conventions of English village life. Ruth's replies are missing. Ruth herself died in June 1955. Jenny Strictlen is a British writer of cozy travel-fiction and sleep stories whose gently observational prose draws on years of rambling through rural villages and Patagonian valleys; her writing has a particular gift for finding emotional weight in unhurried, ordinary places where nothing alarming happens and every detail is lovingly catalogued. A gentle mid-century village mystery about letters that were never meant to be found. ───────────────────────── 💤 THIS STORY IS FOR YOU IF ───────────────────────── → You fall asleep better with a voice than with silence → You love the quiet emotional weight of old letters, village tea shops, and English country libraries → You want something slow enough to actually let go → 1950s countryside fiction — warm, a little wistful, gently melancholic — is your kind of bedtime → You like company without conversation: a story that asks its questions softly and doesn't push for answers ───────────────────────── 🌙 BEST EXPERIENCED ───────────────────────── Headphones on. Lights off. Somewhere warm. Let the lilac scent from the garden shed do the rest. ───────────────────────── 🎧 Credits Narration — Sleepbound Nights Writing — Jenny Strictlen Themes — hidden letters, English village life, quiet mystery, 1950s England Format — Short Story Audiobook ☾ Listen ad-free with Sleepbound Premium → https://sleepboundstudios.supercast.com | https://www.patreon.com/c/SleepBound ☕ Buy me a coffee → https://buymeacoffee.com/sleepboundstudios ☾ Explore Our Other Channels ☾ Sleepbound (classic audiobook imports for sleep): https://www.youtube.com/@Sleepbound ☾ Sleepbound Soundscapes (ambient music mixes): https://www.youtube.com/@SleepboundSoundscapes Sleepbound Nights — bedtime stories for grown-ups, read slowly enough to fall asleep to. #SleepStories #BedtimeAudiobook #VillageMysteryStory #SoftSpokenStory #AudiobookForSleep #ShortStoryForSleep

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 The fence panels go up Sunday morning — Tom arrives with proper coffee in paper cups, the drill screams in the morning quiet, and half the village finds an excuse to stop by. By evening the fairy lights glow against new wood. And on Monday, a knock at the door brings someone who knew the cottage long before Iris did. Includes mentions of: Beverages, Food, Animals, Weather, Mention of Loss, Romance. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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, fence posts arrive early, and Iris finds herself in the garden in paint-stained jeans, holding things steady while Tom digs. The work has a rhythm — dig, wiggle, pull — and by afternoon, Mr Pritchard arrives with soup, the kitchen fills with voices, and Little Darlow quietly makes itself at home. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Animals, Weather, Romance. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 A rainy Thursday in Little Darlow, and Iris Harland is making toast at Elder Cottage — thick-cut marmalade, a cooling pot of tea, a cat with reservations about the whole arrangement. Then her elderly neighbour arrives at the door with a misdelivered letter, and stays. Tonight, we begin The Toast Maker. Includes mentions of: Food, Beverages, Weather, Animals, Mention of Loss. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian

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 Picture a small bookshop after closing — shelves lined floor to ceiling with paperbacks, a lamp still burning on the counter, and a cat who has made this place entirely his own. Tonight, the complete story of The Bookshop Cat, from the very first page to the last. About Sleepbound Premium Bedtime stories for grown-ups. Sleepbound is the chapter-a-night audiobook — original stories, classic literature, and hidden gems, narrated calmly to drift you off. As a Premium member, you get the entire back catalogue ad-free, plus new chapters before they hit the public feed. Thanks for being here. Sweet dreams. — Ian