title: List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2015
text: # 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
  