List of books featured on Book of the Week in 2013

This is a list of books which have been featured on BBC Radio 4's Book of the Week during 2013.

January

  • 07-11 - The Examined Life by Stephen Grosz, read by Peter Marinker.
  • 14-18 - The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne, read by Emma Fielding.
  • 21-25 - The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett, read by Haydn Gwynne.
  • 28-01 - Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan by William Dalrymple, read by Tim Pigott-Smith.

February

  • 04-08 - Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century by Paul Kildea, read by Alex Jennings.
  • 11-15 - Mad Girl's Love Song (book) by Andrew Wilson (journalist, writer), read by Hayley Atwell.
  • 25-01 - Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon, read by Kerry Shale.

March

  • 04-08 - Bedsit Disco Queen by Tracey Thorn, read by author.
  • 11-15 - The Last Days of Detroit by Mark Binelli, read by John Schwab.
  • 18-22 - The World until Yesterday by Jared Diamond, read by Crawford Logan.
  • 25-29 - Comandante (book) by Rory Carroll, read by Jack Klaff.

April

  • 01-05 - The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev by Simon Morrison, read by Sian Thomas.
  • 08-12 - Mom and Me and Mom by Maya Angelou, read by Adjoa Andoh.
  • 15-19 - She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes, read by Alison Pettitt.
  • 22-26 - Letters from Italy, by Gustavo Piga, Lucia Annunziata, Carlo Sibilia, Dacia Maraini, and Annalisa Piras.
  • 29-03 - Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography by Charles Moore, read by Nicholas Farrell.

May

  • 06-10 - A Sting in the Tale by Dave Goulson, read by Tim McInnerny.
  • 13-17 - Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832 by Antonia Fraser, read by Adrian Scarborough.
  • 20-24 - Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes, read by Rory Kinnear.
  • 27-31 - The North (and Almost Everything in It) by Paul Morley, read by author.

June

  • 03-07 - Maggie and Me by Damian Barr, read by author.
  • 10-14 - An Englishman Aboard by Charles Timoney, read by Mark Heap.
  • 17-21 - Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard, read by Kenneth Cranham.
  • 24-28 - The Reason I Jump by Naoki Higashida, read by Kasper HILTON-Hille.

July

  • 01-05 - The Cooked Seed by Anchee Min, read by Chipo Chung.
  • 08-12 - A Long Walk Home by Judith Tebbutt, read by Penny Downie.
  • 15-19 - Permanent Present Tense by Suzanne Corkin, read by Debora Weston.
  • 22-26 - 1913, The Year Before the Storm by Florian Illies, read by Michael Maloney.
  • 29-02 - The Pink Sari Revolution by Amana Fontanella-Khan, read by Meera Syal.

August

  • 05-09 - The Sea Inside by Philip Hoare, read by Anthony Calf
  • 12-16 - Sounds Like London - 100 Years of Black Music in the Capital by Lloyd Bradley read by Ben Onwukwe.
  • 19-23 - Operación Masacre by Rodolfo Walsh, read by Nigel Anthony.
  • 26-30 - Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton, read by Kerry Shale.

September

  • 02-06 - When Britain Burned the White House by Peter Snow, read by Jamie Parker
  • 09-13 - Deep Sea and Foreign Going: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry by Rose George, read by Susie Riddell
  • 16-20 - The Inheritor's Powder - A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed by Sandra Hempel, read by author.
  • 23-27 - Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang, read by Pik-Sen Lim.
  • 30-11 - Beowulf translated and read by Seamus Heaney.

October

  • 14-18 - Historic Heston by Heston Blumenthal read by author.
  • 21-25 - Bonkers: My Life in Laughs by Jennifer Saunders read by author.
  • 28-01 - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield, read by Garrick Hagon.

November

  • 04-08 - Olivier by Philip Ziegler, read by Toby Jones.
  • 11-15 - The Letters of John F Kennedy edited by Martin W Sandler, read by Colin Stinton.
  • 18-22 - The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis, read by Simon Russell Beale.
  • 25-29 - Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity by Philip Short, read by Henry Goodman.

December

  • 02-06 - Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life by Hermione Lee, read by Penelope Wilton.
  • 09-13 - Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela, read by John Kani.
  • 16-20 - Darling Monster the letters of Lady Diana Cooper edited and read by John Julius Norwich.
  • 23-27 - Love, Nina: Despatches From Family Life by Nina Stibbe, read by Rebekah Staton.
  • 30-03 - Man Belong Mrs Queen by Matthew Baylis, read by author.