If you're looking for your next great non-fiction read, you could do a lot worse than check out these titles, all of which we've sent out in one of our Drift + Focus book subscription boxes.
What do they all have in common? They're all informative, thought-provoking and enriching, brilliantly written and as engrossing as any novel.
Theme: FAMILY (Winter 2024)
All the Houses I've Ever Lived In
by Kieran Yates
"So incisive it’s hard to put down."
Pandora Sykes
Wifedom
by Anna Funder
"Simply, a masterpiece. Here, Anna Funder not only re-makes the art of biography, she resurrects a woman in full."
Geraldine Brooks
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Theme: WRONG (Autumn 2024)
A Thread of Violence
by Mark O'Connell
"...draws the reader into a deeply engrossing story, and at the same time into a complex investigation of human brutality and of narrative writing itself."
Sally Rooney
The Poison Line
by Cara McGoogan
"Told with page-turning pace, a forensic grasp of detail and deep human compassion"
Jonathan Freedland
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Theme: CREATE (Summer 2024)
Monsters
by Claire Dederer
"...thrillingly sharp, appropriately doubtful, and more fun than you would believe, given the pressing seriousness of the subject matter."
Nick Hornby
See What You're Missing
by Will Gompertz
"Thorough and diverse...an exhilarating resource for personal growth."
Booklist
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Theme: LOSS (Spring 2024)
When the Dust Settles
by Lucy Easthope
"Amazing book by an amazing woman"
James O'Brien
"Exemplary"
The New Statesman
Lost & Found
by Kathryn Schulz
"...a moving meditation of grief and loss, but also a sparky celebration of joy, wonder and the miracle of love... Witty, wise, beautifully structured and written in clear, singing prose."
Sunday Times
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Theme: TIME (Winter 2023)
Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman
"Comforting, fascinating, engaging, inspiring and useful."
Marian Keyes
The Premonitions Bureau
by Sam Knight
"A venture into the strange world of coincidence and prediction... It's a book that's hard to classify, but wholly fascinating: lively, nimble, its subject poised on the frontiers of possibility."
Hilary Mantel
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Theme: FEEL (Autumn 2023)
How Emotions Are Made
by Lisa Feldman-Barrett
"...did what all great books do. It took a subject I thought I understood and turned my understanding upside down."
Malcolm Gladwell
The Madness
by Fergal Keane
"Fergal Keane opens doors into closed places. He lets us look inside those complex compartments where fear, anxiety, anger and panic lurk."
Irish Times
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Theme: TRUE (Summer 2023)
The Chaos Machine
by Max Fisher
"A stark warning about the extent to which Facebook et al distort our perception of reality."
The Guardian
Small Town Girl
by Donna McLean
"Mind-blowing, gut-wrenching and beautifully written."
Chris Atkins
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Theme: CHANGE (Spring 2023)
From What Is to What If
by Rob Hopkins
"A serious book on an important subject. Without imagination, where are we?"
Sir Quentin Blake
This Is Not a Pity Memoir
by Abi Morgan
"This book is a gift to anyone who has been similarly unmoored by fate and the furies."
Meryl Streep
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Theme: TOGETHER (Winter 2022)
The Power of Strangers
by Joe Keohane
"This lively, searching work makes the case that welcoming 'others' isn't just the bedrock of civilisation, it's the surest path to the best of what life has to offer."
Ayad Akhtar
The Club on the Edge of Town
by Alan Lane
"I absolutely love this book. Read it!"
Lemn Sissay
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Theme: MIND (Autumn 2022)
How to Build a Healthy Brain
by Kimberley Wilson
"absolutely brilliant at explaining what we can do to look after our brain health."
Ella Mills
On Agoraphobia
by Graham Caveney
"Captivating...but also a book unscared of open white space, which feels like an act of defiance. For a book about agoraphobia it covers a huge amount of ground."
Richard Beard
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And here they all are together (up to Autumn 2024), on a spread from our FREE 24-page digital Drift + Focus magazine. If you'd like us to email you a copy, just join our mailing list at the bottom of this page. You'll also get a discount code for 10% off a Quarterly Subscription and we'll enter you into our prize draw to win the next book box! You can unsubscribe from the mailing list at any time.
