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 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
An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth
Chris Hadfield
Night School
Richard Wiseman
Rip It Up
Richard Wiseman
59 Seconds
Richard Wiseman
Quirkology
Richard Wiseman
Paranormality
Richard Wiseman
Queen of the Desert
Georgina Howell
The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau
Dispatches
Michael Herr
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller
Four Letters Of Love
Niall Williams
Once in a House on Fire
Andrea Ashworth
The Woman Warrior
Maxine Hong Kingston
An Unquiet Mind
Kay Redfield Jamison
Essays In Love
Alain de Botton
The Snow Geese
William Fiennes
The Mindfulness Colouring Book
Emma Farrarons
Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton