Christmas Gift Guide: Crowd-Pleasers, Broadchurch and Miriam Margolyes

Ready for your Christmas shopping? This week’s Stack covers six crowd-pleasing books to fill anybody’s stocking. Ella and Jake discuss their own Christmas lists, getting your colours done and what on earth to buy for your dad.  The books featured in this week’s Stack: 12.14 The Poetry Pharmacy 14.17 My Friends - Fredrik Backman 16.14 Is A River Alive? - Robert Macfarlane 18.12 Death At The White Hart - Chris Chibnall 19.40 The Little Book Of Miriam - Miriam Margoyles 22.48 The Romantic Tragedies of a Drama King - Harry Trevaldwyn Also featured: The Wedding People - Alison Espach Notes On Your Sudden Disappearance - Alison Espach The Christmas Tree That Loved To Dance - Miranda Hart All The Best For The Future - Greg James Buckeye - Patrick Ryan  Alchemised - SenLinYu The Raven Scholar - Antonia Hodgson The Safekeep - Yael van der Wouden 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 @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