Show Notes
Ella and Jake pick six tiny books that pack a weird punch, and have fun debating whether they could handle the zombie apocalypse, whether they like to know what’s going on in a book, and a man called Bigolas Dickolas.
The books featured in this week’s STACK: 3.56 Hard Copy - Fien Veldman 6.31 This Is How You Lose The Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone 11.10 Heatwave - Victor Jestin 14.23 It Lasts Forever And Then It’s Over - Anna de Marcken 19.07 Second Best - David Foenkinos 21.50 Treacle Walker - Alan Garner
Also featured: Impossible Creatures - Katherine Rundell Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry George Orwell’s 1984: An Audible Original adaptation
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