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.
Climbing the Stairs
Margaret Powell
The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks
I is for Influence
Rob Yeung
Musicophilia
Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Saved Britain
Simon Winder
Facing Up
Bear Grylls
The Fear
Peter Godwin
Eiger Dreams
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
Shit My Dad Says
Justin Halpern
Below Stairs
Margaret Powell
Ian Dury
Will Birch
The Girl in the Painted Caravan
Eva Petulengro
The Sunset Limited
Cormac McCarthy
Unreliable Sources
John Simpson
The Bridge
David Remnick
Pulling Myself Together
Denise Welch
Nazi Literature in the Americas
Roberto Bolaño
Soup for Every Day
New Covent Garden Soup Company
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