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.
Forgotten Land
Max Egremont
Never Mind
Edward St Aubyn
Bad News
Edward St Aubyn
Some Hope
Edward St Aubyn
Mother's Milk
Edward St Aubyn
The Baby-Making Bible
Emma Cannon
Foundation
Peter Ackroyd
Outlaws Inc.
Matt Potter
Triumph of the City
Edward Glaeser
Hood Rat
Gavin Knight
To End All Wars
Adam Hochschild
The Warmth of the Heart Prevents Your Body from Rusting
Marie de Hennezel
Bury the Chains
Adam Hochschild
Pioneer Woman
Ree Drummond
Titanic Thompson
Kevin Cook
Maximum Willpower
Kelly McGonigal
My Days
R K Narayan
On Ilkley Moor
Tim Binding
My Holy War
Jonathan Raban
Truth or Dare
Justine Picardie
Don't Ask Me What I Mean
Don Paterson
Clare Brown
Midnight in the Garden of Evel Knievel
Giles Smith
Not the Last Goodbye
David Servan-Schreiber
The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
V.S. Naipaul
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