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.
Churchill's Empire
Richard Toye
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
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
Mrs. Hemingway
Naomi Wood
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
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
The Macmillan Diaries II
Harold Macmillan
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
Cries Unheard
Gitta Sereny
Editor
Max Hastings