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.
A World Beneath the Sands
Toby Wilkinson
I Wanna Be Yours
John Cooper Clarke
Lights Out, Full Throttle
Damon Hill
Johnny Herbert
Journey
Paulo Coelho
Great Family Days In
Claire Balkind
Me
Elton John
Humans
Brandon Stanton
Range
David Epstein
Pandora's Jar
Natalie Haynes
The Korean War
Max Hastings
The Running Book
John Connell
The Psychology of Stupidity
Jean-Francois Marmion
A Nurse's Story
Louise Curtis
Sarah Johnson
The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Mariah Carey
Blue Ocean Shift
Renee Mauborgne
W. Chan Kim
Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink
Inner Spark
Kristin Vikjord
How I Built This
Guy Raz
The Economists' Hour
Binyamin Appelbaum
Dutch Light
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Shakespearean
Robert McCrum
Fake Law
The Secret Barrister
The Harpy
Megan Hunter
Pinch of Nom Food Planner: Everyday Light
Kay Featherstone
Kate Allinson
Laura Davis
Permanent Record
Edward Snowden
The Song of Simon de Montfort
Sophie Thérèse Ambler
The Age of Football
David Goldblatt
Kremlin Winter
Robert Service
Unshakeable
Shane Byrne
The Girl with the Saddest Secret
Angela Hart
The Gospel of the Eels
Patrik Svensson
How to Survive a Pandemic
Michael Greger MD
The Formula
Albert-László Barabási
Queer Intentions
Amelia Abraham
Welcome Home
Lucia Berlin
The Glass Hotel
Emily St. John Mandel
A Company of Swans
Eva Ibbotson
I Survived
Victoria Cilliers
The Lamplighter
Jackie Kay
Intentional Integrity
Robert Chesnut