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 Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by John Burnside
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I by Clare Jackson
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Japanese Way of Whisky: Japan’s whiskies and how to enjoy them by Dave Broom
£25.00
David's Bookshop Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition by Anthony Bourdain
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Royal Mint Puzzle Book: 125 Rewarding Puzzles for All the Family
£16.99
David's Bookshop Petroc Trelawny's Classical Music Puzzle Book: A world of music brought to life in eighty works, puzzles and conundrums
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Spectator's Best of Notes On...: From Kippers to Jeans and everything in between by William Moore
£12.99
David's Bookshop Private Eye Annual 2025
£12.99 £10.99
David's Bookshop Eleanor: A 200-mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen by Alice Loxton
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Complicated Woman: The hotly anticipated literary debut by Rebecca Lucy Taylor
£22.00
David's Bookshop Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them by Jonathan Freedland
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty by Tracy Borman
£26.00
David's Bookshop Schott’s Significa: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language by Ben Schott
£22.00
David's Bookshop Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino
£10.99
David's Bookshop Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm by Charlie Mackesy
£22.00
David's Bookshop Vagabond by Tim Curry
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Gifts of Winter by Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald
£16.99
David's Bookshop Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Only Way I Know: The Autobiography by Andy Farrell
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Winner's Curse: Behavioral Economics Anomalies Then and Now by Richard H. Thaler & Alex O. Imas
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Manifest: A neuroscientific solution for people who are sick of their own b.s. by Lacy Phillips
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Rabbit Hole Book: 99 adventures into the history of stuff by Richard Coles, Charles Spencer & Cat Jarman
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Immortalists: The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life by Aleks Krotoski
£22.00
David's Bookshop Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2025 by Tim Benson
£17.99
David's Bookshop Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham Dixon
£30.00
David's Bookshop Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men by Mara Gold
£22.00
David's Bookshop Believe: Achieving the Impossible by Mark Cavendish
£22.00
David's Bookshop Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics by Vlatko Vedral
£25.00
David's Bookshop Miriam: Life, Work, Everything by Miriam O'Callaghan
£25.00
David's Bookshop Reincarnation by Thich Nhat Hanh
£8.99
David's Bookshop Murdoku by M. Garand
£16.99
David's Bookshop I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living by Hu Anyan
£20.00
David's Bookshop Attention: Writing on Life, Art and The World by Anne Enright
£20.00
David's Bookshop Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders by Rory Stewart
£22.00
David's Bookshop Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction by Jonathan C. Slaght
£30.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of America: From Tea Party to Trump by Simon Jenkins
£25.00
David's Bookshop Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Life in Letters by John Updike
£40.00
David's Bookshop Rick Stein's Christmas: Recipes, Memories & Stories for the Festive Season by Rick Stein
£28.00
David's Bookshop Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths that Shaped Europe by Janina Ramirez
£25.00
David's Bookshop The English House: A History in Eight Buildings by Dan Cruickshank
£25.00
