Books on BBC Radio 4 › August 2000
Every book featured on BBC Radio 4's book strands during August 2000 — Book of the Week, Book at Bedtime, Bookclub, A Good Read and other slots where the title was named on air. We pick these up each morning over the school run and add them to the list below.
Last updated: August 15th 2026 · 13 books listed for August 2000.
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Admiring Silence by Abdulrazak Gurnah
A Good Read · broadcast August 29th
ISBN: 978-0241001844
The Child in Time by Ian McEwan
A Good Read · broadcast August 29th
ISBN: 978-0099755012
The House by the Dvina by Eugenie Fraser
A Good Read · broadcast August 29th
ISBN: 978-0906391693
Out of Sheer Rage by Geoff Dyer
A Good Read · broadcast August 22nd
ISBN: 978-1782115137
The First Eagle by Tony Hillerman
A Good Read · broadcast August 22nd
ISBN: 978-0060175818
We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories of Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch
A Good Read · broadcast August 22nd
ISBN: 978-0374286972
A Book of Secrets by M.G. Vassanji
A Good Read · broadcast August 8th
ISBN: 978-0333638392
England, Their England by A.G. Macdonell
A Good Read · broadcast August 8th
ISBN: 978-1781550007
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
A Good Read · broadcast August 8th
ISBN: 978-1853260018
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor
Bookclub · broadcast August 6th
ISBN: 978-0141032405
The Inheritors by William Golding
A Good Read · broadcast August 1st
ISBN: 978-1166128128
Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie
A Good Read · broadcast August 1st
ISBN: 978-0099583042
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Good Read · broadcast August 1st
ISBN: 978-9388810944