Non-fiction
From biography and politics to true crime and self-help, you’ll find books to illuminate and inspire in our non-fiction range. Discover acclaimed writers like Oliver Sacks and David Olusoga, and explore contemporary bestsellers such as This is Going to Hurt and The Secret Barrister.
Discover our edit of the best non-fiction books of all time.
The Song of Simon de Montfort
Sophie Thérèse Ambler
The Age of Football
David Goldblatt
Kremlin Winter
Robert Service
The Girl with the Saddest Secret
Angela Hart
How to Survive a Pandemic
Michael Greger MD
The Formula
Albert-László Barabási
Queer Intentions
Amelia Abraham
Welcome Home
Lucia Berlin
A Company of Swans
Eva Ibbotson
I Survived
Victoria Cilliers
The Lamplighter
Jackie Kay
Everything in Its Place
Oliver Sacks
Gotta Get Theroux This
Louis Theroux
The Great Flood
Edward Platt
Toxic Childhood Stress
Dr Nadine Burke Harris
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Mary Seacole
Eight Days at Yalta
Diana Preston
The First Breath
Olivia Gordon
Brothers in Arms
Geraint Jones
The Bells of Old Tokyo
Anna Sherman
Wild and Crazy Guys
Nick de Semlyen
Daily Rituals
Mason Currey
How to Survive
John Hudson
I Spy
Tom Marcus
The Russian Job
Douglas Smith
Wean in 15
Joe Wicks
James Herriot's Dog Stories
James Herriot
Emma Cannon's Total Fertility
Emma Cannon
The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
The Joy Journal for Magical Everyday Play
Laura Brand
1939
Frederick Taylor
The Age of Light
Whitney Scharer
Constellations
Sinéad Gleeson
The Iliad
Homer
The Aeneid
Virgil
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
The Map of Knowledge
Violet Moller
Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen
The Wild Journal
Willow Crossley
Living the Life Unexpected
Jody Day