The Best Non-Fiction of 2025
Our top picks from this year's new releases
David's Bookshop Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk by Lally MacBeth
£20.00
David's Bookshop How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession by Caitlin Blackwell Baines
£22.00
David's Bookshop Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
£22.00
David's Bookshop Bread of Angels by Patti Smith
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi by Dr Hannah French
£20.00
David's Bookshop Is A River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane
£25.00
Bestselling Non-Fiction
Our current topsellers in non-fiction
David's Bookshop Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney
£35.00
David's Bookshop We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir by Sir Anthony Hopkins
£25.00
David's Bookshop Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
£30.00
David's Bookshop Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
£25.00
David's Bookshop This Way Up by Map Men
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
£22.99 £19.99
David's Bookshop Raising Hare: The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship by Chloe Dalton
£10.99
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David's Bookshop Power and the Palace: The Inside Story of the Monarchy and 10 Downing Street by Valentine Low
£25.00
David's Bookshop SAS: The Ambush: The True Story of One of the SAS's Most Dangerous Assault Missions by Tony Hoare
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Art of Not Eating: The Secret History of Diet Culture by Jessica Hamel-Akre
£12.99
David's Bookshop Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare’s Greatest Rival, Christopher Marlowe by Stephen Greenblatt
£25.00
David's Bookshop Marie Antoinette Style
£40.00
David's Bookshop The African Emperor: The Life of Septimius Severus by Simon Elliott
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Longest Walk Home: The epic 2,000 mile escape of a WWII POW, in his own words by Ray Bailey
£20.00
David's Bookshop Israel on the Brink: Eight Steps for a Better Future by Ilan Pappe
£20.00
David's Bookshop Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: Single-volume Centenary Edition by Charles Moore
£40.00
David's Bookshop Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2025 by Martin Daunton
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Last Dynasty: Ancient Egypt from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra by Toby Wilkinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Queer Thing About Sin: Why the West Came to Hate Queer Love by Harry Tanner
£20.00
David's Bookshop Michael Palin in Venezuela by Michael Palin
£20.00
David's Bookshop Freedom: Memoirs 1954 - 2021 by Angela Merkel
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Colour of Injustice by Lee Lawrence
£22.00
David's Bookshop Guinness: A Family Succession: The True Story of the Struggle to Create the World's Largest Brewery by Arthur Edward Guinness
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Bookshop, The Draper, The Candlestick Maker: A History of the High Street by Annie Gray
£10.99
David's Bookshop Granny Takes a Trip: High Fashion and High Times at the Wildest Rock 'n' Roll Boutique by Paul Gorman
£40.00
David's Bookshop Why is Downing Street Painted Black?: And 364 Other Fun London Facts by Jonnie Fielding
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years by Sunil Amrith
£12.99
David's Bookshop Ghosts of the Farm: Two Women's Journeys Through Time, Land and Community by Nicola Chester
£22.00
David's Bookshop Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance by Yanis Varoufakis
£22.00
David's Bookshop British Vogue: Fashion, Power and a Century of Change by Julie Summers
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Discovery of Britain: An Accidental History by Graham Robb
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets From the 1950s to the Present Day by Juliet Nicolson
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Little Book of Christmas and Hogmanay: Scotland's Festive Traditions by Anna Marshall
£9.99
David's Bookshop Daring to be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World by Sudhir Hazareesingh
£30.00
David's Bookshop Gimson's Heroes by Andrew Gimson
£25.00
David's Bookshop More and More and More: An All-Consuming History by Jean-Baptiste Fressoz
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s by Jason Burke
£30.00
David's Bookshop Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning
£12.99
David's Bookshop Why Q Needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them by Danny Bate
£14.99
David's Bookshop Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
£10.99
David's Bookshop Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma by Victoria Whitworth
£35.00
David's Bookshop Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time by Shaun Usher
£25.00
David's Bookshop Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich
£25.00
David's Bookshop Rhineland: Hitler’s Last Defence, 1944–45 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
£25.00
David's Bookshop Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000 by James Stourton
£12.99
David's Bookshop No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Zimbabwe by Frank Thabani Sayi
£25.00
David's Bookshop Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped a legend by Rebecca Romney
£12.99
David's Bookshop Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Stuff of History: A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People by Steven Moore
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Two Hundred Years War: The Bloody Crowns of England and France, 1292–1492 by Dr Michael Livingston
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham
£22.00
David's Bookshop Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar by Max Hastings
£10.99
