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[]

• Different Every Time: The Authorised Biography of Robert Wyatt – Marcus O'Dair
• Reaching down the Rabbit Hole – Dr Allan H Ropper and
• Epilogue: A Memoir –
• 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 –
• Birth of a Theorem – Cédric Villani
• The Utopia Experiment – Dylan Evans
• Boundless – Kathleen Winter

April[]

• Landmarks – Robert Macfarlane
• The Story of Alice –
• 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 –
• Channel Shore –

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 –
• 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

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