List of books featured on Book of the Week
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week from 2012 onward.
2012
See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2012
2013
See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2013
2014
See List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2014
2015[1]
January
- Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt – Marcus O'Dair
- Reaching down the Rabbit Hole – Dr Allan H Ropper and Brian D Burrell
- Epilogue: A Memoir – Will Boast
- Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible – Peter Pomerantsev
February
- Young Eliot – Robert Crawford
- Leaving before the Rains Come – Alexandra Fuller
- Shop Girl – Mary Portas
March
- Girl in the Dark – Anna Lyndsey
- Birth of a Theorem – Cedric Villani
- The Utopia Experiment – Dylan Evans
- Boundless – Kathleen Winter
April
- Landmarks – Robert Macfarlane
- The Story of Alice – Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
- The Shepherd's Life – James Rebanks
- Skyfaring – A Journey with a Pilot – Mark Vanhoenacker
- Words Without Music – Philip Glass
May
- Year of the Fat Knight – Antony Sher
- The Weather Experiment – Peter Moore
- Gold Fever – Steve Boggan
- Channel Shore – Tom Fort
June
- Ghettoside – Jill Leovy
- Adventures in Human Being – Gavin Francis
- Walking Away – Simon Armitage
- Keeping an Eye Open – Julian Barnes
July
- Queen of the Desert – Georgina Howell
- All Day Long: A Portrait of Britain at Work – Joanna Biggs
- Sixty Degrees North – Malachy Tallack
- On the Move – Oliver Sacks
- Long Time No See – Hannah Lowe
August
- Spirals in Time: The Secret Life and Curious Afterlife of Seashells – Dr Helen Scales
- Romantic Outlaws: The Extraordinary Lives of Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley – Charlotte Gordon
- A Mountain of Crumbs – Elena Gorokhova
September
- Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads – Paul Theroux, read by Henry Goodman
- Maggie Smith: A Biography – Michael Coveney, read by Bill Nighy
- Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio – Misha Glenny read by author
- The White Road – Edmund de Waal read by Julian Rhind-Tutt
October
- Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants – Charles Moore (journalist) read by Nicholas Farrell
- 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear – James Shapiro, read by Ian McDiarmid
- John le Carré: The Biography – Adam Sisman, read by Stephen Boxer
November
- Charlotte Bronte: A Life by Claire Harman, read by Hattie Morahan
- Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal by Jay Parini, read by Toby Jones
- Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink by Elvis Costello, read by the author
- Living On Paper: Letters from Iris Murdoch 193-1995 edited by Avril Horner and Anne Rowe, read by Imogen Stubbs and Nigel Anthony
- Railways – Nation, Network and People by Simon Bradley, read by Stephen Tompkinson
December
- Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill, read by Stephanie Cole
- My History by Antonia Fraser
- The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees by Robert Penn
- The House by the Lake: A Story of Germany by Thomas Harding
2016[1]
January
- Young Orson by Patrick McGilligan, read by Jack Klaff
- The Vanishing Man by Laura Cumming, read by Siobhan Redmond
- The Outrun by Amy Liptrot, read by Tracy Wiles
- Summer Before the Dark by Volker Weidermann
- Stop the Clocks by Joan Bakewell
February
- City of Thorns by Ben Rawlence
- Benjamin Franklin in London by George Goodwin
- The Other Paris by Luc Sante read by Simon Russell Beale
- The Real Henry James by Henry Goodman read by Olivia Williams
March
- Seamus Heaney's Aeneid Book VI by Seamus Heaney read by Ian McKellen
- Quicksand by Henning Mankell read by Tim Pigott-Smith
- But you did not come back by Marceline Loridan-Ivens
- The Onlooker by Irene Nemirovsky read by David Suchet
- This Orient Isle by Jerry Brotton read by Derek Jacobi
April
- Beethoven for a Later Age by Edward Dusinberre read by Tim McMullan
- At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell read by Sasha Behar
- A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson read by Juiliet Stevenson
References
- 1 2 "Book of the Week: Episode Guide". BBC Radio. BBC. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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