A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rev Andrew Martlew. Book of the Week Episode guide
Reason I Jump
By Naoki Higashida. David Mitchell translates and introduces this extraordinary book
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Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra
From a hotel room in Alexandria, Peter Stothard traces his lifelong interest in Cleopatra
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An Englishman Aboard
Writer Charles Timoney accepts a challenge to travel the entire length of the River Seine
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Maggie and Me
Damian Barr's reads his entertaining memoir of growing up in a Scottish steelworking town
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The North (and Almost Everything in It)
Rock journalist Paul Morley on the north, and what it means to be a northerner
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Falling Upwards
By Richard Holmes. Stories of the first balloon aeronauts. Read by Rory Kinnear
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Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832
Antonia Fraser's account of a period of dramatic political change
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A Sting in the Tale
Dave Goulson details the mysterious ways of the bumblebee. Read by Tim McInnerny
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Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography
Charles Moore's portrait of the former British prime minster. Read by Nicholas Farrell
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Letters from Italy
Leading Italian figures write about Italy today, the dangers and the possibilities
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She Left Me the Gun
By Emma Brockes. Warm and moving memoir in which the author uncovers dark family secrets
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Mom and Me and Mom
Maya Angelou's account of her relationship with her mother, Vivian Baxter
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The Love and Wars of Lina Prokofiev
Simon Morrison's moving biography about the wife of composer Serge Prokofiev
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Comandante
Rory Carroll's biography of Hugo Chavez, the late president of Venezuela
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The World until Yesterday
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond asks what can traditional societies teach us
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The Last Days of Detroit
Mark Binelli's portrait of a city in post-industrial decline
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Bedsit Disco Queen
Singer Tracey Thorn of Everything But the Girl charts her personal and musical journey
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Far From the Tree
Stories of families who learn to deal with their exceptional children, by Andrew Solomon
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Mad Girl's Love Song
Andrew Wilson's book on the early life of writer Sylvia Plath, abridged by Miranda Davies
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Benjamin Britten: A Life in the Twentieth Century
Biography of the English composer by Paul Kildea
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Return of a King: The Battle for Afghanistan
William Dalrymple analyses the first Afghan war, 1839-1842. Read by Tim Pigott-Smith
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The Pike: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War
Lucy Hughes-Hallett charts the life of Italian politician and poet Gabriele D'Annunzio
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The Real Jane Austen
Paula Byrne explores the forces that shaped the interior life of the popular novelist
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The Examined Life
By Stephen Grosz. Stories from the analyst's consulting room
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Wild
Cheryl Strayed's account of hiking 1,100 miles alone through America's rugged west
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Three Houses
Childhood memoir of author Angela Thirkell. Read by Sian Thomas
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Shakespeare's Local - Six Centuries of History Seen through One Extraordinary Pub
By Pete Brown. A history of pubs as seen through the story of one London inn, the George
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Looking for Mrs Livingstone
Julie Davidson searches Southern Africa for traces of explorer David Livingstone's wife
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The Horologicon
By Mark Forsyth. Hidden delights from the English language to suit all hours of the day
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The Black Count
By Tom Reiss. Biography of the father of French novelist Alexandre Dumas
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