List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2017
This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during 2015.[1]
January
- Labyrinths by Catrine Clay, read by Deborah Findlay and Henry Goodman
- The Reformation by Diarmaid MacCulloch
- The Novel of the Century by David Bellos, read by Daniel Weyman
- Man of Iron by Julian Glover, read by Robin Laing
February
- Once Upon a Time in the East by Xiaolu Guo, read by Chipo Chung
- Age of Anger by Pankaj Mishra, read by the author
- Deaths of the Poets by Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley, read by the authors
- Border – Tales from the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova, read by Indira Varma
March
- What Happened, Miss Simone? by Alan Light, read by Alibe Parsons
- The Rule of the Land by Garrett Carr, read by John Paul Connolly
- The Word Detective by John Simpson, read by Nigel Anthony
- Fathers and Sons by Howard Cunnell, read by James Lailey
- Be Like the Fox by Erica Benner, read by Toby Jones
April
- And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger, read by Simon McBurney
- David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet by Thomas Dilworth, read by Nicholas Farrell
May
- Balancing Acts by Nicholas Hytner, read by the author
- Between Them by Richard Ford
- Admissions: A Life in Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh, read by Robert Powell
- Sound by Bella Bathurst, read by Adjoa Andoh
- Farewell to the Horse by Ulrich Raulff, read by Iain Glen
June
- The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead, read by Juliet Stevenson
- The Secret Life by Andrew O'Hagan, read by the author
- The Secret Lives of Colour by Kassia St Clair, read by Francesca Dymond
- Believe Me by Eddie Izzard, read by the author
July
- Big Pig, Little Pig by Jacqueline Yallop, read by Imogen Stubbs
- RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR by Philip Hoare, read by Tobias Menzies
- Fall Down Seven Times, Get Up Eight by Naoki Higashida, translated by David Mitchell, read by Matthew Beard
- Shark Drunk by Morten Stroksnes, translated by Tiina Nunnally, read by Adrian Scarborough
August
- The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich, read by Sarah Badel, Teresa Gallagher and Jane Whittenshaw
- Gainsborough: A Portrait by James Hamilton, read by Julian Rhind-Tutt
- The Hungry Empire by Lizzie Collingham, read by Melody Grove
- I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell, read by Hattie Morahan
- How Not to Be a Boy by Robert Webb, read by the author
September
- Every Third Thought by Robert McCrum, read by Nicky Henson
- South and West by Joan Didion, read by Laurel Lefkow
- Following Pappano
- Wounds by Fergal Keane
October
- The Rub of Time by Martin Amis, read by Bill Nighy
- The Letters of Sylvia Plath, read by Lydia Wilson
- How to Be Champion by Sarah Millican, read by the author
- Daemon Voices by Philip Pullman
- Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling, read by Hattie Morahan
November
- Life in the Garden by Penelope Lively, read by Stephanie Cole
- The Dawn Watch by Katrin Williams, read by Laurel Lefkow
- The Vanity Fair Diaries by Tina Brown, read by the author
- Lou Reed: A Life by Demetri Goritsas, read by the author
December
- Over and Out by Henry Blofeld, read by the author
- A collection of letters on the theme of Letters from South Africa
- Strangers by Bongani Kona, read by the author
- Mark Gevisser
- Shosholoza: The Train that Keeps Moving by Panashe Chigumadzi, read by the author
- This Is What a Country Looks Like When it Is Collapsing by Lidudumalingani Mqombothi
- Johannesburg by Fiona Melrose, read by the author
- Village Christmas by Laurie Lee, read by Derek Jacobi
- Adventures of a Young Naturalist by David Attenborough
References
- "Book of the Week: Episode Guide". BBC Radio. BBC. Retrieved 3 August 2017.
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