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.

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

Successful Selling for Small Business
Jackie Wade

Mastering Hurst Cycle Analysis
Christopher Grafton

The Search for Income
Maike Currie

Not the Last Goodbye
David Servan-Schreiber

The Nightwatchman's Occurrence Book
V.S. Naipaul

Climbing the Stairs
Margaret Powell

7 Keys to a Winning CV
Mildred Talabi

Cotter on Investing
John Cotter

The Mind's Eye
Oliver Sacks

I is for Influence
Rob Yeung

The Man Who Saved Britain
Simon Winder

Facing Up
Bear Grylls

The Operational Risk Handbook for Financial Companies
Brian Barnier

How to Value Shares and Outperform the Market
Glenn Martin

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

Building a Billion
Charlie Berridge

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

Milton Friedman
Eamonn Butler

Parisians
Graham Robb

Shit My Dad Says
Justin Halpern

7 Winning Strategies For Trading Forex
Grace Cheng