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.
Lord of the Dance
Michael Flatley
Douglas Thompson
Excess Returns
Frederik Vanhaverbeke
The Restoration of Rome
Peter Heather
The True Lives of My Chemical Romance
Tom Bryant
The Stonemason
Cormac McCarthy
Flat Earth
Christine Garwood
The Flying Carpet to Baghdad
Hala Jaber
Creation Stories
Alan McGee
War and Peace
Ricky Hatton
Flappers
Judith Mackrell
Land's Edge
Tim Winton
Hatchet Job
Mark Kermode
One L
Scott Turow
The Rise of the Humans
Dave Coplin
Property Tycoon
Ian Samuels
The 5-Minute Marketer
Stefan Ekberg
The Crystal Bucket
Clive James
The Dreaming Swimmer
Clive James
I Quit Sugar for Life
Sarah Wilson
Wild Food
Roger Phillips
Call the Doctor
Ronald White-Cooper
Deborah White-Cooper
Dead Men's Wages
Lilian Pizzichini
At the Pillars of Hercules
Clive James
Confessions of a Chelsea Boy
Spencer Matthews
The Metropolitan Critic
Clive James
Night Beat
Mikal Gilmore
The Wreck at Sharpnose Point
Jeremy Seal
Made for Rugby
Barrie McDermott
Behavioral Portfolio Management
C. Thomas Howard
Small Wars, Far Away Places
Michael Burleigh
A Fort of Nine Towers
Qais Akbar Omar
The Last Foundling
Tom H. Mackenzie
Supertiming: The Unique Elliott Wave System
Robert C. Beckman
West's World
Lorna Gibb
The Book of My Lives
Aleksandar Hemon
Benediction
Kent Haruf
Harvest
Jim Crace
Churchill's First War
Con Coughlin
A Cold Case
Philip Gourevitch
What the F*** Did I Do Last Night?
Rowland Rivron