List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2016
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during 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 Irène Némirovsky, 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
- White Sands by Geoff Dyer redy by Alex Jennings
July
- Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited by Philip Eade, read by Nickolas Grace
- Van Gogh's Ear: The True Story by Bernadette Murphy, ready by Rebecca Front
- Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature by Linda Lear, ready by Lindsay Duncan
August
- The Age of Bowie by Paul Morley
- Flaneuse – Woman Who Walk the Cities by Lauren Elkin, read by Julianna Jennings
- Upbeat by Paul MacAlindin, read by Kenny Blyth
- Wish Lanterns by Alec Ash, read by David Seddon
- Shrinking Violets by Joe Moran, read by Nigel Planer
September
- Beryl Bainbridge – Love by All Sorts of Means by Brendan King, read by James Fleet and Samantha Bond
- The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life by John le Carré, read by the author
- Elizabeth Jane Howard: A Dangerous Innocence by Artemis Cooper, ready by Greta Scacchi
- Another Day in the Death of America by Gary Younge
October
- The Return by Hisham Matar, read by Khalid Abdalla
- The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon, read by Emma Fielding
- A collection of essays entitled The Good Immigrant
- "Namaste" by Nikesh Shukla, read by the author
- "A Guide to Being Black" by Varaidzo, read by the author
- "Flags" by Coco Khan
- "The Ungrateful Country", by Musa Okwonga, read by the author
- Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett read by the author
November
- The Apple Orchard by Pete Brown, read by the author
- Fear by Sir Ranulph Fiennes, read by the author
- Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli, read by Mark Meadows
December
- Mad Enchantment by Ross King, read by Allan Corduner
- This Long Pursuit by Richard Holmes, read by Patrick Malahide
- Love of Country by Madeleine Bunting, read by Doon Mackichan
- Snow by Marcus Sedgwick, read by Jonathan Firth
References
- "Book of the Week: Episode Guide". BBC Radio. BBC. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
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