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 Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle by Max Hastings
£25.00
David's Bookshop Pup Fiction: An epic journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog
£16.99
David's Bookshop Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound by Kate Kennedy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Boy From the Valleys: My unexpected journey by Luke Evans
£12.99
David's Bookshop A Fine Line between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap by Rob Reiner
£25.00
David's Bookshop Both Sides Now: Laughter, Grief and Everything in Between with Johnnie Walker by Tiggy Walker
£20.00
David's Bookshop Lyrical Diary: Lieder from Franz Schubert to Wolfgang Rihm by Christian Gerhaher
£25.00
David's Bookshop Annie Lennox: Retrospective by Annie Lennox
£50.00
David's Bookshop Oasis: Trying to find a way out of nowhere by Jill Furmanovsky & Noel Gallagher
£50.00
David's Bookshop We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me by Elliot Mintz
£10.99
David's Bookshop Up in the Air: A History of High Rise Britain by Holly Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations by Tom Bolton
£21.00 £19.99
David's Bookshop The Years of the Wizard: The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissance Magicians by Rachel Morris
£20.00
David's Bookshop To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel by Andrew Martin
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Anime Archives by Lost in Cult
£35.00
David's Bookshop My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
£18.99
David's Bookshop Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980) by Eleanor Johnson
£20.00
David's Bookshop Scorsese on Filmmaking and Faith by Martin Scorsese & Antonio Spadaro
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi by Dr Hannah French
£20.00
David's Bookshop Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat by Joe Shute
£11.99
David's Bookshop Over the Rainbow: Tales from an Unexpected Year by Alex James
£10.99
David's Bookshop Planting for a Year of Flowers: Grow Your Garden Through the Year by Jane Moore
£18.00
David's Bookshop Full Gas Forever: A 40+ Cyclist's Guide to Riding Faster and Further by Ed Clancy & Lexie Williamson
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Way of the Waves: A cycling odyssey to rediscover the soul of European surfing by Martin Dorey
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Dream: Breaking Champions League Records by Carlo Ancelotti
£22.00
David's Bookshop World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments by Simon Kuper
£20.00
David's Bookshop World Football Records 2026 by Keir Radnedge
£20.00
David's Bookshop Freddie Flintoff: Autobiography by Andrew Flintoff
£22.00
David's Bookshop Pitlane Lessons: What F1 Can Teach You About Life and Work by Marc 'Elvis' Priestley
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Complete Book of Volkswagen GTI: Every Model Since 1976 by Russell Hayes
£38.00
David's Bookshop The Season: A Fan’s Story by Helen Garner
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Steps by Sylvester Stallone
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
£13.99
David's Bookshop Beyond the Line: My Life in Rugby by Ben Youngs
£25.00
David's Bookshop Test Match Special: How to Read Cricket: Everything you need to know about the greatest game in the world by Ebony Rainford-Brent
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% by Conor Niland
£10.99
David's Bookshop Chasing Jessop: The Mystery of England Cricket's Oldest Record by Simon Wilde
£22.00
David's Bookshop Baddest Man: The making of Mike Tyson by Mark Kriegal
£25.00
David's Bookshop Fallen: Everest and the Enigma of George Mallory by Mick Conefrey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Two Lights: Walking at Dawn and Dusk on a Turning Planet by James Roberts
£10.99
David's Bookshop Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory’s Life and Death in the Mountains by George Mallory
£10.99
David's Bookshop BIG DUNC: The Upfront Autobiography by Duncan Ferguson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Road Captain: My Life at the Heart of the Peloton by Luke Rowe
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Forever Forward: The inside story of McLaren Formula 1 by Ben Hunt
£22.00 £19.80
