The Ship's Cat with Alex Howard

The Ship's Cat with Alex Howard

From The 15 Minute Book Club by Alex Churchill, Matt Bone

April 29, 2026 · 21 min · Episode 18

About this episode

Author Alex Howard discusses his book 'The Ship's Cat' and the story of Archie the streetwise cat.

There is no room to swing a cat this week as we are wall to wall cats! Author Alex Howard joins us to tell us about Archie the streetwise cat's odyssey in his new book, The Ship's Cat, and he has just 15 minutes to convince you to buy it. Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Preorder The Ship's Cat by Alex Howard at our Bookshop.org shop. Support authors, indie bookshops and us! UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16621/9781785307706 Visit our Bookshop with books from all of our guests via the links below: (UK) https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/15MinuteBookClub (US) https://bookshop.org/shop/15MinuteBookClub Patreon members get extra time: 15 more minutes, in which you get to see behind the scenes and find out how the book was written. You can subscribe here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/15MinuteBookClub Watch the video version: https://www.youtube.com/@15MinuteBook_Club Buy [INSERT BOOK TITLE] at our Bookshop.org shop. Support authors, indie bookshops and us! UK Link:  US Link:  Visit our Bookshop with books from all…

People in this episode

Hosts: Alex Churchill, Matt Bone

Guest: Alex Howard

Topics covered

  • cats
  • literature
  • book promotion
  • author interview
  • indie bookshops

Keywords

  • The Ship's Cat
  • Alex Howard
  • cats
  • book promotion
  • indie bookshops
  • Patreon

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Patreon, Bookshop.org

Books & works: The Ship's Cat

Places: UK

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