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.
Gotta Get Theroux This
Louis Theroux
India
V. S. Naipaul
The Great Flood
Edward Platt
Toxic Childhood Stress
Dr Nadine Burke Harris
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Mary Seacole
Eight Days at Yalta
Diana Preston
The First Breath
Olivia Gordon
Brothers in Arms
Geraint Jones
The Bells of Old Tokyo
Anna Sherman
Wild and Crazy Guys
Nick de Semlyen
Daily Rituals
Mason Currey
How to Survive
John Hudson
I Spy
Tom Marcus
The Russian Job
Douglas Smith
Good Food for Bad Days
Jack Monroe
Wean in 15
Joe Wicks
James Herriot's Dog Stories
James Herriot
Emma Cannon's Total Fertility
Emma Cannon
The Moment of Lift
Melinda Gates
The Joy Journal for Magical Everyday Play
Laura Brand
1939
Frederick Taylor
The Age of Light
Whitney Scharer
Constellations
Sinéad Gleeson
The Iliad
Homer
The Aeneid
Virgil
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
More Myself
Alicia Keys
The Map of Knowledge
Violet Moller
Some Kids I Taught and What They Taught Me
Kate Clanchy
Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess
Amanda Owen
The Wild Journal
Willow Crossley
Living the Life Unexpected
Jody Day
Good to Go
Christie Aschwanden
Spark
Manoush Zomorodi
Daughters of Chivalry
Kelcey Wilson-Lee
Losing Earth
Nathaniel Rich
Coders
Clive Thompson
The Original Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Radio Scripts
Douglas Adams
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
Susannah Stapleton
The Vegetarian Kitchen
Prue Leith
Peta Leith