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.

The Fall of Paris
Alistair Horne

Family Outing
Chastity Bono

Democracy Kills
Humphrey Hawksley

Poldark's Cornwall
Winston Graham

The Trading Playbook
Michael Gouvalaris

You Can't Have My Daughter
Elizabeth McDonnell

O's Little Book of Happiness
The Editors of O, the Oprah Magazine

Empire's Crossroads
Carrie Gibson

Bamboo Goalposts
Rowan Simons

7 Successful Stock Market Strategies
Glenn Martin

Some Desperate Glory
Max Egremont

Things A Little Bird Told Me
Biz Stone

Ada Lovelace: Bride of Science
Benjamin Woolley

The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen

Coming Up Trumps: A Memoir
Jean Trumpington

Churchill's Empire
Richard Toye

The Man Who Couldn't Stop
David Adam

The New Value Investing
C. Thomas Howard

Four Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Romanov Grand Duchesses
Helen Rappaport

21st Century Point and Figure
Jeremy du Plessis

Night School
Richard Wiseman

Rip It Up
Richard Wiseman

59 Seconds
Richard Wiseman

Quirkology
Richard Wiseman

Paranormality
Richard Wiseman

Queen of the Desert
Georgina Howell

The $100 Startup
Chris Guillebeau

Mrs. Hemingway
Naomi Wood

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
Alexandra Fuller

The Mindfulness Colouring Book
Emma Farrarons

Humans of New York
Brandon Stanton

Little Humans
Brandon Stanton

Portfolio Management
John Bonner
Edward Ivanovic
Marcus Rees

The Gardener's Son
Cormac McCarthy

The Investment Assets Handbook
Yoram Lustig

The Mindfulness Journal
Corinne Sweet
Marcia Mihotich

How Not to Murder Your Mother
Stephanie Calman

The Macmillan Diaries II
Harold Macmillan

Predatory Thinking
Dave Trott

7 Simple Strategies of Highly Effective Traders
Paresh H. Kiri
Alpesh B. Patel