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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