STACK with Jake and Ella

It’s payback time! Join Jake and Ella as they discuss their favourite books about revenge. Plus, Jake has a harrowing story about punctuation and Ella is seeking information on a Sheffield motorist. She just wants to talk.

The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Speech Team by Tim Murphy

Honey by Imani Thompson

We Play Ourselves by Jen Silverman

The Raven Scholar by Antonia Hodgson

Better Than Revenge by Bea Fitzgerald

The Favourites by Layne Fargo



Also mentioned:

My Sister the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Daisy Jones and the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Show Don’t Tell by Curtis Sittenfeld

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry

Our extremely niche bonus stack on bee stings: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUGe5hfgvwS/



Thank you so much to our episode sponsor 3am Books. You can
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STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you 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.



Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can keep making it.

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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.



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
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Surprise! We’ve squeezed in a super special bonus episode all about David Nicholls and his books about love.

Jake, a self-professed Nicholls head guides Ella through the options, and she picks her next read from his recommendations. Loved One Day, and wondering where else to go next? This is the episode for you.

The books featured in this week’s STACK:

The Understudy by David Nicholls

Starter For Ten by David Nicholls

One Day by David Nicholls

Us by David Nicholls

Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls

You Are Here by David Nicholls

AD | Thank you to Hodder Books and their David Nicholls: Read For Love campaign for making this episode of STACK possible.

STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you 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.

Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can keep making it.

We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/⁠

TikTok: ⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

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.

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.

We record on location at Aspect Ratio Studio in Sheffield.
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Your favourite books podcast returns with an episode on Beach
Reads. Literally.

In this episode we discuss our favourite books set on the coast - perfect for your holiday reading. We also cover the cultural highlights from the break (The Odyssey! Off Campus! Heartstopper! Yesteryear!) and go absolutely mad responding to a Shelf Help dilemma about nature writing.



The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Summer Boy by Philippe Besson

Sandwich by Catherine Newman

Private Rites by Julia Armfield

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson



Also mentioned:

Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller

The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel

Who Owns England by Guy Shrubsole

Albion by Anna Hope

When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift

Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguro



Layover by Emily Henry can be found here: https://www.emilyhenrybooks.com/bonus-content



STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you 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.



Don’t forget to follow us on your podcast player or subscribe on
YouTube so that you never miss an episode, and please leave us a review
wherever you’re listening. It’s the best way to support the show so that we can
keep making it.



We are @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast



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.



STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.

We record on location at Aspect Ratio Studio in Sheffield.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We're back. Have you missed us? We missed you.

We're bigger, bookier and better than ever before. Now lightening up your hump days - series two lands in just two days time this Wednesday, with themes including Weddings, Revenge and Beach Reads.

Get in touch now to tell us what you've enjoyed reading over the break, or your Shelf Help dilemmas. We've missed you.

There's lots of exciting things to come. Think bonus episodes, think author interviews, think STACK. Subscribe now so you never miss an episode.
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It’s the season one finale and it starts with a literal bang (sorry about the noise)! In this episode we look back on our highlights from the last twelve episodes and share our favourite books about friendship because we’re incredibly sentimental. 

Plus Ella pitches a soon-to-be-published book as Ghostbusters meets It’s A Sin and it’s the crossover you didn’t know you needed!

Don’t forget to subscribe to the pod so you don’t miss our triumphant return in July…

The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Mayflies by Andrew O’Hagan

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout

Drayton and Mackenzie by Alexander Starritt

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin

The Private Side of Friendship by Alexander McCall Smith

Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler

STACK with Jake and Ella 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 @stackpodcast on socials.

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stackpodcast/

TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@stackpodcast

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 - you can literally ask us anything!

STACK with Jake and Ella is an independent podcast production.

It is produced by Jake Williams and Ella Horne.

Our theme music was created by Thomas Clarke.
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