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 Juliet Stevenson

May

• The Running Hare by John Lewis-Stempel, read by Bernard Hill
• Fingers in the Sparkle Jar by Chris Packham, ready by the author and Rachel Atkins
• Memories: From Moscow to the Black Sea by Tracy Ann Oberman, read by Tracy Ann Oberman
• In the Bonesetter's Waiting Room by Aarathi Prasad, read by Sudha Bhuchar

June

• Love from Boy - Roald Dahl's Letters to His Mother by Roald Dahl, read by Rory Kinnear and Donald Sturrock
• Only in Naples by Katherine Wilson, read by Fenella Woolgar
• Negroland by Margo Jefferson, read by the author
• The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee, read by Raj Ghatak

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