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Meet your next favourite books...STACK with Jake and Ella is a books podcast sharing the books we love and helping people fall in love-and stay in love-with reading. In every episode, Ella and Jake will present a curated list of six brilliant books on a theme. We're creating mini-libraries on a theme, for whenever the inspiration takes you. Get in touch with your dilemmas for Shelf Help - no question is too big.We are @stackpodcast on Instagram and TikTok
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- 3 days ago31 min
Sports Smut: Crew Girl, Challengers Made Tennis Sexy and What To Read After Heated Rivalry
This week, readers and athletes Jake and Ella are testing your spice tolerance and asking the big questions: is baseball a sexy sport? What is a Why Choose romance? And what exactly is so difficult about driving a fast car around a track? WARNING: This episode is very silly and Ella repeatedly gets the title of Pucking Around wrong. The books featured in this week’s STACK: See You At The Finish Line by Zac Hammett One on One by Jamie Harrow The Open Era by Edward Schmit Fix Her Up by Tessa Bailey Pole Position Rebecca J. Caffery Pucking Around by Emily Rath 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
- 2 weeks ago34 min
Happy Halloween! Lucy Rose on Body Horror, Madness and East of Eden
It’s STACK with Jake and… Lucy! In this special Halloween episode, Jake is joined by Lucy Rose, bestselling author of The Lamb, to discuss her writing and a stack of her very own. What draws Lucy to the horror genre? What are her favourite books about madness? And was there ever a world in which she ended her own book differently, saving Ella an immense amount of trauma? The books featured in this week’s STACK: The Leveret by Anna Goldreich This Immaculate Body by Emma Van Straaten Milk Bread Teeth by Amy Twigg We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson Earthlings by Sayaka Murata Also mentioned: The Lamb by Lucy Rose: https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-lamb/lucy-rose/9781399619752 The Lottery by Shirley Jackson: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1948/06/26/the-lottery The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata 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
- Oct 7, 202634 min
Once Upon A Podcast: Time Traveller’s Wife, Anne Hathaway and Taylor Jenkins Reid
Ella and Jake introduce STACK’s fairytale-themed episode, full of classic tales, retellings and modern fables, starting with a discussion of the Booker Prize shortlist and a particularly annoying clip of Mary Beard criticising the phrase ‘a love of reading’. There’s a Shelf Help section on learning more about people’s jobs and they discuss the big publishing event of next week - a sequel to The Time Traveller’s Wife! The books featured in this week’s STACK: Ella Enchanted - Gail Carson Levine The Bear & The Nightingale - Katherine Arden Spinning Silver - Naomi Novik The Bloody Chamber - Angela Carter Then We Came To The End - Joshua Ferris Ghost Month - Simon Wroe Also mentioned: The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger Life Out of Order - Audrey Niffenegger The Two Roberts - Damian Barr Atmosphere - Taylor Jenkins Reid 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
- Sep 23, 202639 min
True Crime: Getting Your Books Wet, ACOTAR Updates and Writing Murder Respectfully
Jake and Ella are reading outside of their type, looking at the true crime genre: the morals, the scandal and the real-life drama of it all. They - allegedly - cover the Kennedys, recent high-profile non-fiction and how to write about a murderer properly. It’s still a fun episode, they promise–just wait until Ella’s anecdote. And Jake’s okay after what he talks about in the intro, we promise. The books featured in this week’s STACK: London Falling - Patrick Radden Keefe Bright Young Women - Jessica Knoll Plain Bad Heroines - Emily M. Danforth A Hymn to Life - Gisèle Pelicot Notes On An Execution - Danya Kukafka Ask Not - Maureen Callahan 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Sep 9, 202644 min
On Campus: Ella’s first Sally Rooney, Booker Prizes and an exclusive reading of May We Feed The King by Rebecca Perry
It’s freshers week for Jake and Ella as they share their favourite campus-set novels. Whether you’re talking Uni or College, consider these books your set texts for September - educational, fun and full of mistakes. Plus, Ella has finally read Normal People and you can hear an exclusive extract from Booker-longlisted May We Feed the King, read by the author. The books featured in this week’s STACK: Black Bag by Luke Kennard The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Rayburn Affair by Laurie Petrou The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss The House on Otley Road by Rosa Silverman Normal People by Sally Rooney Also mentioned: May We Feed the King by Rebecca Perry - with exclusive reading provided by the author Thank you so much to our episode sponsor Quercus Books. You can order a copy of Fellow Creatures by Emma Lowther here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/fellow-creatures/emma-lowther/9781529444056. 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 26, 202629 min
Wedding Dramas: Taylor Swift, Claire Daverley and Croquembouche Catastrophes
Why are we so obsessed with weddings in fiction? This week Jake and Ella discuss their favourite books about nuptials. From love triangles and in-laws to hen-dos and croquembouches, these six books are guaranteed to bring the drama. Plus, Jake has spotted a Taylor Swift inspired theme in bookshops… The books featured in this week’s STACK: The Wedding People by Alison Espach Ghost Wedding by David Park Piglet by Lottie Hazell Best Woman by Rose Dommu People in Love by Claire Daverley The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides Also mentioned: Talking at Night by Claire Daverley A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik Piranesi by Susanna Clarke The Book of Form and Emptiness by Ruth Ozeki 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 12, 202632 min
Revenge Is Sweet: Frenemies, The Raven Scholar and Wuthering Heights on Ice
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 order a copy of Fawn by C. N. Vair here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/fawn/c-n-vair/2928377389437 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
- Aug 5, 202615 min
BONUS: David Nicholls: Love Stories, University Nostalgia and What To Read After One Day
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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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