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 Crystal Bucket
Clive James
The Dreaming Swimmer
Clive James
I Quit Sugar for Life
Sarah Wilson
Wild Food
Roger Phillips
Call the Doctor
Ronald White-Cooper
Deborah White-Cooper
Dead Men's Wages
Lilian Pizzichini
At the Pillars of Hercules
Clive James
Confessions of a Chelsea Boy
Spencer Matthews
The Metropolitan Critic
Clive James
Night Beat
Mikal Gilmore
The Wreck at Sharpnose Point
Jeremy Seal
Made for Rugby
Barrie McDermott
Small Wars, Far Away Places
Michael Burleigh
A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar
The Last Foundling
Tom H. Mackenzie
West's World
Lorna Gibb
The Book of My Lives
Aleksandar Hemon
Benediction
Kent Haruf
Harvest
Jim Crace
Churchill's First War
Con Coughlin
A Cold Case
Philip Gourevitch
What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?
Rowland Rivron
Simply the Best Baby Name Book
Stuart Wilson
Going to the Wars
Max Hastings
Swimming Against the Stream
Tim Waterstone
Haydn and The Valve Trumpet
Craig Raine
Even As We Speak
Clive James
The Star Qualities
Caroline Goyder
Extreme Motherhood
Jackie Clune
The Generation Game
David McWilliams
The Burma Road
Donovan Webster
Loitering with Intent: The Child
Peter O'Toole
Loitering with Intent: The Apprentice
Peter O'Toole
Guard a Silver Sixpence
Felicity Davis
Reporting
David Remnick
Scribbling the Cat
Alexandra Fuller
The Bill From My Father
Bernard Cooper
Words and Deedes
W. F. Deedes
Beat the Bitch
Tess Stimson
The Devil's Picnic
Taras Grescoe