Weird Little Books: Zombies, Word Soup and Falling In Love With A Printer

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 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