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 Sceptred Isle: A New History of the Fourteenth Century by Helen Carr
£10.99
David's Bookshop 40 Maps That Will Change How You See the World by Alastair Bonnett
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Illegals: Russia's Most Audacious Spies and the Plot to Infiltrate the West by Shaun Walker
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Book in the Cathedral: The Last Relic of Thomas Becket by Christopher de Hamel
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Postal Paths: Rediscovering Britain’s Forgotten Trails And The People Who Walked Them by Alan Cleaver
£12.99
David's Bookshop Elizabeth: An intimate portrait from the writer who knew her and her family for over fifty years by Gyles Brandreth
£12.99
David's Bookshop Heatwave: The Summer of 1976 – Britain at Boiling Point by John L Williams
£12.99
David's Bookshop Forgotten Women by Zing Tsjeng
£16.99
David's Bookshop Building Britannia: A History of Britain in Twenty-Five Buildings by Steven Parissien
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Rage of Party by George Owers
£12.99
David's Bookshop Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments by Tessa Dunlop (PRE-ORDER)
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Believer's Dilemma: A.B. Vajpayee and the Ascent of the Hindu Right by Abhishek Choudhary (PRE-ORDER)
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Regina: A New History of Royal Women by Kate Williams
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Stealing Hitler's Rocket: The Incredible Mission to Smuggle a V2 out of Nazi-Occupied Europe to Britain by Guy Walters
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
£10.99
David's Bookshop No King In Israel: The Jewish State Confronts its Demons by Anshel Pfeffer
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Admiral of the Narrow Seas: The Life of Bertram Ramsay by Andrew Gordon
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Slay: Ancient legends of female slayers and the hidden mythology of dragons by Jasmine Elmer
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Mrs Thatcher's War by Christopher Collins
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Shifting Sands: A Human History of the Sahara by Judith Scheele
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Blood in Winter: A Nation Descends, 1642 by Dr Jonathan Healey
£25.00
David's Bookshop Unknown Enemy: The Hidden Nazi Force That Built the Third Reich by Dr Charles Dick
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Graces: The Extraordinary Untold Lives of Women at the Restoration Court by Breeze Barrington
£25.00
David's Bookshop Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky by Joanne Baker
£22.00
David's Bookshop SAS Daggers Drawn: In For the Kill: The Third in the Blair 'Paddy' Mayne Trilogy by Damien Lewis
£9.99
David's Bookshop Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life by Tiffany Jenkins
£20.00
David's Bookshop No Ordinary Deaths: A People's History of Mortality by Molly Conisbee
£22.00
David's Bookshop Paris '44: The Shame and the Glory by Patrick Bishop
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ring of Fire: A New Global History of the Outbreak of the First World War by Alexandra Churchill & Nicolai Eberholst
£30.00
David's Bookshop Ghost Nation: The Story of Taiwan and Its Struggle for Survival by Chris Horton
£22.00
David's Bookshop Keir Starmer: The Biography by Tom Baldwin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures by Lizzie Wade
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion by Colin Freeman
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko Kakutani
£9.99
David's Bookshop Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears
£18.99
David's Bookshop Sluts: The truth about sex shame and what we can do to fight it by Beth Ashley
£9.99
David's Bookshop 10 Mistakes That Changed History: The Reckless Rulers, Monumental Mishaps and Disastrous Decisions That Have Shaped Our World. by Paul Coulter
£20.00
David's Bookshop Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands by Jonathan Mullard
£22.00
David's Bookshop Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess by Adam Zamoyski
£10.99
David's Bookshop No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs by Nury Turkel
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain by Matthew Lockwood
£12.99
David's Bookshop Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers by Benjamin Wardhaugh
£12.99
David's Bookshop History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft by Richard Davenport-Hines
£12.99
David's Bookshop Crunch: The History of Crisps by Natalie Whittle
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hercules by Scott Bateman
£10.99
David's Bookshop American Heroes by James Patterson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World by Oliver Basciano
£20.00
