Show Notes
Welcome to the first episode of 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 Bardugo Aftertaste - Daria Lavelle The Screaming Staircase (Lockwood & Co Book 1) - Jonathan Stroud Strangers - Taichi Yamada Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Lamb - Lucy Rose Please 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 @stackpodcast 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.
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