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 Inner Game of Tennis
W Timothy Gallwey
My Year Off
Robert McCrum
If The Spirit Moves You
Justine Picardie
The Inner Game of Music
W Timothy Gallwey
Barry Green
The Art of Captaincy
Mike Brearley
The Secret of Evil
Roberto Bolaño
1946: The Making of the Modern World
Victor Sebestyen
How To Drive: The Ultimate Guide, from the Man Who Was the Stig
Ben Collins
How We Learn
Benedict Carey
Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel
Dermot Bolger
You Say Potato
Ben Crystal
David Crystal
Robbie and Gary
Paul Scott
Fire in the Night
C Smith
J Bierman
The Roadside MBA
Scott Schaefer
Paul Oyer
Michael Mazzeo
The Appetite Solution
Dr Joe Colella
Civil War
Peter Ackroyd
The Skeleton Cupboard
Tanya Byron
Born to Score
Dwight Yorke
The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill
William Manchester
Paul Reid
Forgotten Girl
Naomi Jacobs
The Fall of Paris
Alistair Horne
Democracy Kills
Humphrey Hawksley
Poldark's Cornwall
Winston Graham
You Can't Have My Daughter
Elizabeth McDonnell
O's Little Book of Happiness
The Editors of O, the Oprah Magazine
Empire's Crossroads
Carrie Gibson
Bamboo Goalposts
Rowan Simons
Some Desperate Glory
Max Egremont
Things A Little Bird Told Me
Biz Stone
Ada Lovelace: Bride of Science
Benjamin Woolley
The Midwife's Sister
Christine Lee
The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen
Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir
Jean Trumpington
Overlord
Max Hastings
Armageddon
Max Hastings
Churchill's Empire
Richard Toye
The Insufferable Gaucho
Roberto Bolaño
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
Philip Gourevitch
The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam
Four Sisters:The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Helen Rappaport