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.
Eiger Dreams
Jon Krakauer
Under The Banner of Heaven
Jon Krakauer
Into Thin Air
Jon Krakauer
A Turn in the South
V. S. Naipaul
The Middle Passage
V. S. Naipaul
Letters Between a Father and Son
V. S. Naipaul
Literary Occasions
V. S. Naipaul
A Writer's People
V. S. Naipaul
The Writer and the World
V. S. Naipaul
The Lie of the Land
Ian Vince
The Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking
Marcella Hazan
Conversations With Myself
Nelson Mandela
What You See Is What You Get
Alan Sugar
The Surprising Life of Constance Spry
Sue Shephard
Zulu Rising
Ian Knight
Parisians
Graham Robb
Katherine the Queen
Linda Porter
Below Stairs
Margaret Powell
Ian Dury
Will Birch
The Girl in the Painted Caravan
Eva Petulengro
Germania
Simon Winder
Unreliable Sources
John Simpson
The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy
The Bridge
David Remnick
Pulling Myself Together
Denise Welch
The Korean War
Max Hastings
Soup for Every Day
Bomber Command
Max Hastings
India: A Wounded Civilization
V. S. Naipaul
An Area of Darkness
V. S. Naipaul
The Loss of El Dorado
V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V. S. Naipaul
The Blaze of Obscurity
Clive James
The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe
J. Randy Taraborrelli
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
William Shawcross
It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet
James Herriot
Edinburgh
Michael Fry
The Revolt of the Pendulum
Clive James
The Invention of Clouds
Richard Hamblyn
Michael Jackson
J. Randy Taraborrelli