List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2015
# List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2015

This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during 2015.

## 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 – Cédric 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
