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.
Bad Blood
Colm Tóibín
Homage to Barcelona
Colm Tóibín
Love in a Dark Time
Colm Tóibín
The Sign of the Cross
Colm Tóibín
Walk Me to the Distance
Percival Everett
The Behavioral Portfolio
Phillip Toews
Nostalgia
Agnes Arnold-Forster
This Is Body Grief
Jayne Mattingly
All the Lonely People
Sam Carr
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
Henry Gee
Careless People
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Sir Lewis
Michael E. Sawyer
Crime Scene
Alessandra Santelli
The Garden Against Time
Olivia Laing
How Life Works
Philip Ball
Code Dependent
Madhumita Murgia
Is This Working?
Charlie Colenutt
The Glass Cliff
Sophie Williams
The Snow Geese
William Fiennes
What’s Up With Women and Money?
Alison Kosik
Rites of Passage
Judith Flanders
Sociopath
Patric Gagne
Will You Care If I Die?
Nicolas Lunabba
A Life Reimagined
Jill Halfpenny
Nancy's Green and Easy Kitchen
Nancy Birtwhistle
The Hidden Globe
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian
Literature for the People
Sarah Harkness
Ten Times Calmer
Kirren Schnack
Dead Weight
Emmeline Clein
Price Catalysts
Jim Osman
Wise Animals
Tom Chatfield
Armageddon
Max Hastings
Judgement at Tokyo
Gary J. Bass
Heresy
Catherine Nixey
Never Mind
Edward St Aubyn
The Humble Investor
Daniel Rasmussen
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here
Jonathan Blitzer
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
Kate Mosse
Space Oddities
Harry Cliff
The Science of Racism
Keon West