Literally Beach Reads: Off Campus, The Odyssey & STACK is Back!

Your favourite books podcast returns with an episode on Beach Reads. Literally.

In this episode we discuss our favourite books set on the coast - perfect for your holiday reading. We also cover the cultural highlights from the break (The Odyssey! Off Campus! Heartstopper! Yesteryear!) and go absolutely mad responding to a Shelf Help dilemma about nature writing.

 

The books featured in this week’s STACK:

Beach Read by Emily Henry

The Summer Boy by Philippe Besson 

Sandwich by Catherine Newman 

Private Rites by Julia Armfield 

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 

The Shampoo Effect by Jenny Jackson

 

Also mentioned:

Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler 

Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield 

The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller 

The House on the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune 

The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel 

Who Owns England by Guy Shrubsole 

Albion by Anna Hope 

When There Are Wolves Again by EJ Swift 

Common Ground by Naomi Ishiguro

 

Layover by Emily Henry can be found here: https://www.emilyhenrybooks.com/bonus-content 

 

STACK with Jake and Ella is the books podcast helping you 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.

 

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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. 

We record on location at Aspect Ratio Studio in Sheffield.

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