List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2015
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This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during 2015.[1]
January[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Young Eliot – Robert Crawford
- Leaving before the Rains Come – Alexandra Fuller
- Shop Girl – Mary Portas
March[edit]
- Girl in the Dark – Anna Lyndsey
- Birth of a Theorem – Cédric Villani
- The Utopia Experiment – Dylan Evans
- Boundless – Kathleen Winter
April[edit]
- 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[edit]
- Year of the Fat Knight – Antony Sher
- The Weather Experiment – Peter Moore
- Gold Fever – Steve Boggan
- Channel Shore – Tom Fort
June[edit]
- Ghettoside – Jill Leovy
- Adventures in Human Being – Gavin Francis
- Walking Away – Simon Armitage
- Keeping an Eye Open – Julian Barnes
July[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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[edit]
- 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
References[edit]
- ^ "Book of the Week: Episode Guide". BBC Radio 4. Archived from the original on 31 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.