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 Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw
£14.99
David's Bookshop Miracle: The Boys Who Escaped the Gas Chamber in Auschwitz by Michael Calvin & Naftali Schiff
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Vietdamned: How the World’s Greatest Minds Put America on Trial by Clive Webb
£10.99
David's Bookshop Forgotten: Searching for Palestine’s Hidden Places and Lost Memorials by Raja Shehadeh
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hard Streets: Working-Class Lives in Charlie Chaplin’s London by Jacqueline Riding
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1945-1959 by Peter Parker
£9.99
David's Bookshop Some Men In London: Queer Life, 1960-1967 by Peter Parker
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Sicilian Man: Leonardo Sciascia, the Rise of the Mafia and the Struggle for Italy’s Soul by Caroline Moorehead
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The First Fascist: The Life and Legacy of the Marquis de Mores by Sergio Luzzatto
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Atypical Girl: Liverpool, Punk Rock and Trying to be Normal by Penny Kiley
£10.99
David's Bookshop The North Pole: The History of an Obsession by Erling Kagge
£10.99
David's Bookshop Decolonising My Body: On Ancestry, Tradition and Cultural Reinvention by Afua Hirsch
£10.99
David's Bookshop World Enemy No. 1: Nazi Germany, Soviet Russia, and the Fate of the Jews by Jochen Hellbeck
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Chain of Fire: Campaigning in Egypt and the Sudan, 1882-98 by Peter Hart
£12.99
David's Bookshop Anatomica - A Compendium of Blood, Bones and Bodies: A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities by Mary Dobson
£16.99
David's Bookshop Prosecuting the Powerful: War Crimes and the Battle for Justice by Steve Crawshaw
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World by Noam Chomsky & Nathan J. Robinson
£10.99
David's Bookshop 24 Hours in the Viking World: A Day in the Life of the People Who Lived There by Kirsten Wolf
£8.99
David's Bookshop Mining Men: Britain’s Last Kings of the Coalface by Emily P Webber
£10.99
David's Bookshop Oliver Cromwell: The brave, bad man of British history by Professor John Morrill
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Mafia: A Global History by Ryan Gingeras
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Neverending Empire: The Infinite Impact of Ancient Rome by Aldo Cazzullo
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Queen: 100 Years, 100 Stories by Michelle Morgan
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Killing Age: How Violence Made the Modern World by Clifton Crais
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness by Michael Pollan
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Deficit: How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World by Emma Holten
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the United States and the Middle East, 1979-2003 by Steve Coll
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Face: A Cultural History by Fay Bound Alberti
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Rain of Ruin: Tokyo, Hiroshima and the Surrender of Japan by Richard Overy
£12.99
David's Bookshop Trafalgar by Paul O'Keeffe
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Herlands: Lessons From Societies Where Women Make the Rules by Megha Mohan
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Holy Places: How Pilgrimage Changed the World by Kathryn Hurlock
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction by Henry Gee
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Golden Throne: The Rule of Suleyman the Magnificent by Christopher de Bellaigue
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wages for Housework: The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise by Emily Callaci
£12.99
David's Bookshop Money and Promises: Seven Deals that Changed the World by Paolo Zannoni
£12.99
David's Bookshop Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan
£12.99
David's Bookshop HOW TO KILL A WITCH: A Guide For The Patriarchy by Claire Mitchell & Zoe Venditozzi
£12.99
David's Bookshop Bytes and Bullets: Global Rivalries, Private Tech, and the New Shape of Modern Warfare by Steven Feldstein
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Wild Peaks: A Journey on Foot Through England’s First National Park by Tom Chesshyre
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Beyond Belief by Katie Baskerville
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Rebel Empresses: Elisabeth of Austria and Eugenie of France, Power and Glamour in the Struggle for Europe by Nancy Goldstone
£12.99
David's Bookshop My Family and Other Spies by Alistair Wood
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lives of the Caesars by Suetonius
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Alienation Effect: How Central European Emigres Transformed the British Twentieth Century by Owen Hatherley
£9.99
David's Bookshop Europe: A New History by Roderick Beaton
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Lochs and Legends: A Scotsman's Guide to the Heart of Scotland by Andy the Highlander
£10.99
