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 Point of View
Clive James
Possessed of a Past: A John Banville Reader
John Banville
The Art of Science
Richard Hamblyn
Look Younger for Longer
Lesley Reynolds
Touching Distance
Rebecca Abrams
The Prince
Niccolò Machiavelli
The Last Days of Hitler
Hugh Trevor Roper
Penny Sweets and Cobbled Streets
Nanny Pat
As It Was
Fred Trueman
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Stephen Inwood
Seeing Voices
Oliver Sacks
The Island of the Colour-blind
Oliver Sacks
Oaxaca Journal
Oliver Sacks
Facebuilder for Men
Carole Maggio
Blue-Eyed Son
Nicky Campbell
Buddy
Philip Norman
Daydream Believer
Hugh Massingberd
Deep France
Celia Brayfield
Dennis Wise
Dennis Wise
The Forest for the Trees
Betsy Lerner
Forever Liesl
Charmian Carr
Going to Extremes
Nick Middleton
The Ice Master
Jennifer Niven
If You're Second You Are Nothing
Oliver Holt
J.R.R. Tolkien
Michael Coren
The Macmillan Diaries
Harold Macmillan
Peter Catterall
Madam Secretary
Madeleine Albright
The Mighty and the Almighty
Madeleine Albright
Seeds of Wealth
Henry Hobhouse
The Beatles' Shadow
Pauline Sutcliffe
Nobody Cared
Terrie O'Brian
Driving Home
Jonathan Raban
Spies and Commissars
Robert Service
The Opium War
Julia Lovell
An Anthropologist on Mars
Oliver Sacks
How to Find Fulfilling Work
Roman Krznaric
The Way I See It
Alan Sugar
Armed Struggle
Richard English
Natural Solutions to PCOS
Marilyn Glenville
At Last
Edward St Aubyn