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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Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Maggie Nelson
£9.99
David's Bookshop One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson
£18.99
David's Bookshop Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today: (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis) by Naomi Alderman
£16.99
David's Bookshop What Have I Done?: My Autobiography by Ben Elton
£25.00
David's Bookshop You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip by Kelsey McKinney
£10.99
David's Bookshop Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History by Tharik Hussain
£25.00
David's Bookshop Dianarama: Deception, Entrapment, Cover-up: The Betrayal of Princess Diana by Andy Webb
£22.00
David's Bookshop Create Repeat: 365 Days of Creativity by Zack Evans & Morgan Evans
£18.99
David's Bookshop I Decided to Live as Me: How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself by Kim Suhyun
£10.99
David's Bookshop Quantum 2.0: The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Physics by Paul Davies
£20.00
David's Bookshop How to Go (and Stay) Vegan by Ed Winters
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop A Life and a Half: The Unexpected Making of a Politician by Chris Bryant (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Far Above The World: The Time and Space of David Bowie by Paul Morley
£25.00
David's Bookshop Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds by Jonathan Elphick
£50.00
David's Bookshop Swoop Sing Perch Paddle: Birds by Carry Akroyd by Carry Akroyd & John McEwen
£14.99
David's Bookshop Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change by Friederike Otto
£22.00
David's Bookshop One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate by Kate Bradbury
£18.99
David's Bookshop Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water by Alys Fowler
£20.00
David's Bookshop Red Pockets: An Offering by Alice Mah
£20.00
David's Bookshop To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships by Sophie Pavelle
£20.00
David's Bookshop Nature Boy: A journey of birdsong and belonging by Sean Ronayne
£22.99
David's Bookshop Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams by Jason Allen-Paisant
£18.99
David's Bookshop Namesake: Reflections on A Warrior Woman by N.S. Nuseibeh
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hiroshima: The extraordinary stories of the last survivors of the atomic bomb who can still recall the day the world changed forever by M.G. Sheftall
£14.99
David's Bookshop Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland by Peter Ross
£22.00
David's Bookshop Dark Squares: A cult leader, a child prodigy and the chess revolution by Daniel Rensch
£20.00
David's Bookshop Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us by Kevin Hall & Julia Belluz
£22.00
David's Bookshop Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J Fox
£22.00
David's Bookshop We Have Ways of Making You Talk: World in Peril: New Histories of World War Two
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
£14.99
David's Bookshop Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
£20.00
David's Bookshop Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by Greil Marcus
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando Jr.
£16.99
David's Bookshop Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us by Anna Bogutskaya
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Friendship by Andrew O'Hagan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records by James Nice
£16.99
David's Bookshop 89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem by Milan Kundera
£12.99
David's Bookshop Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios Won't Open – Wisdom for the Unreflective by Richard Ayoade
£10.00
David's Bookshop Portrait of an Island on Fire by Ariel Saramandi
£14.99
David's Bookshop Greyhound by Joanna Pocock
£14.99
David's Bookshop Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev by Maxim Gorky
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux
£8.99
David's Bookshop The Tower by Thea Lenarduzzi
£14.99
David's Bookshop The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
£10.99
