The Stack

This week’s Stack is all about the girls and the gays. Jake and Ella cover books that speak to their identities, others that help them to understand other perspectives and Ella reads The Lamb after Jake’s review last week.The books featured in this week’s Stack:04.45 Amateur - Thomas Page McBee09.05 The Rachel Incident - Caroline O’Donoghue12.23 Period Power - Maisie Hill16.05 I Leave It Up To You - Jinwoo Chong17.50  A Marvellous Light - Freya Marske21.05 A Home At The End of the World - Michael Cunningham Also featured:The Lamb - Lucy RoseAmazing Grace Adams - Fran LittlewoodGreat Circle - Maggie ShipsteadThe Binding - Bridget Collins The Stack is a books podcast helping you cut through the noise to fall in love - and stay in love - with reading. Each fortnight, we’ll be sharing curated lists on a theme of the books that are worth your time.Please follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube. Do comment and share and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review - it’s massively helpful. We are @thestackpodcast on socials.Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestackpodcast/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@thestackpodcastPlease get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section. The Stack is an independent podcast production.It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.

Welcome to the first episode of The Stack, a new fortnightly books podcast from Jake, a writer and producer, and Ella, who works in publishing.Every week, they’ll curate a list of six brilliant books on a theme, cutting through the noise and choice of the book world to recommend the ones that are really worth your time.This week, they’re chatting haunted houses and ghost sightings, convincing each other to give children’s books a try, read a book after having seen the film, and to give oozing haunted houses a try. The books featured in this week’s Stack:Ninth House - Leigh BardugoAftertaste - Daria Lavelle The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co Book 1) - Jonathan StroudStrangers - Taichi YamadaMexican Gothic -  Silvia Moreno-GarciaThe Lamb - Lucy RosePlease comment, subscribe and share, and if you’d like to support the podcast even further, we’d love it if you could leave us a review. We are @thestackpodcast on socials - please get in touch if you read any of the books from this week’s episode, or have a bookish problem for our Shelf Help section.

Welcome to The Stack - a books podcast cutting through the noise to help you fall in love - and stay in love - with reading.We're here to introduce the books that are worth your time with six brilliant books per episode, on a bespoke theme. The Stack starts Tuesday 28th October, new episodes every fortnight. The Stack is hosted by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.This episode was recorded on location in Sheffield. We are @thestackpodcast on Instagram and TikTok.