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.
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
Little Humans
Brandon Stanton
The Gardener's Son
Cormac McCarthy
The Mindfulness Journal
Corinne Sweet
Marcia Mihotich
How Not to Murder Your Mother
Stephanie Calman
Predatory Thinking
Dave Trott
Little Ern
Robert Sellers
James Hogg
Smith
Don Paterson
Life Signs
Claire Petulengro
Life is Meals
James Salter
Kay Salter
A Drink with Shane MacGowan
Victoria Mary Clarke
Shane MacGowan
We Could Be Heroes
Tom Fordyce
Ben Dirs
Give Me Ten Seconds
John Sergeant
How Not to Murder Your Husband
Stephanie Calman
The Seventies Unplugged
Gerard DeGroot
A Curious Invitation
Suzette Field
Isle of Noises
Daniel Rachel
Dean And Me
Jerry Lewis
James Kaplan
Editor
Max Hastings
The Places In Between
Rory Stewart
Eat the Rich
P. J. O'Rourke
What I Know for Sure
Oprah Winfrey
A. A. Milne
Ann Thwaite
Stalked
Alison Hewitt
We are Michael Field
Emma Donoghue
Passions Between Women
Emma Donoghue
Alphaville
Michael Codella
Bruce Bennett
In My Mother's Shoes
Alison Walsh
Karma Chameleons
Tom Fordyce
Ben Dirs
Last Letters Home
Tamasin Day-Lewis
Lloyd George and Churchill
Richard Toye
The Little Captive
Lise Kristensen