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.
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
The Revolt of the Pendulum
Clive James
The Invention of Clouds
Richard Hamblyn
Michael Jackson
J. Randy Taraborrelli
Hops and Glory
Pete Brown
If Only They Could Talk
James Herriot
Man Walks Into A Pub
Pete Brown
Born Free
Joy Adamson
Bad Blood
Colm Tóibín
Homage to Barcelona
Colm Tóibín
The Sign of the Cross
Colm Tóibín
The Making of Modern Britain
Andrew Marr
Love in a Dark Time
Colm Tóibín
The Great Shark Hunt
Hunter S. Thompson
Lenin
Robert Service
Trotsky
Robert Service
Stalin
Robert Service