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 The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
£9.99
David's Bookshop Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
£9.99
David's Bookshop Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
£8.99
David's Bookshop Design as Art by Bruno Munari
£9.99
David's Bookshop Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic and Rediscovered Writing by Anthony Bourdain
£25.00
David's Bookshop Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg
£10.99
David's Bookshop Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
£10.99
David's Bookshop Watermark: An Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
£9.99
David's Bookshop Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
£8.99
David's Bookshop Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
£9.99
David's Bookshop On Photography by Susan Sontag
£9.99
David's Bookshop Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
£9.99
David's Bookshop Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
£9.99
David's Bookshop Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
£9.99
David's Bookshop Hack Yourself Healthy: Reclaim your health to boost your energy, clear your mind and live a long, vibrant life by Julia Bradbury (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Last Secret Agent: The Extraordinary Story of a WW2 Spy in Her Own Words by Pippa Latour
£10.99
David's Bookshop Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Woman Like Me: A Memoir by Diane Abbott
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities by Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland
£10.99
David's Bookshop Brutal: My Autobiography by Iwan Thomas
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Family Obsession: What We Talk About When We Talk About Football by Harry Redknapp & Jamie Redknapp
£12.99
David's Bookshop Thorns, Lust and Glory: The betrayal of Anne Boleyn by Estelle Paranque
£12.99
David's Bookshop Diddly Squat: Home to Roost by Jeremy Clarkson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Taking the Lead: A Dog at Number 10 by John Crace
£10.99
David's Bookshop The White Ladder: Triumph and Tragedy at the Dawn of Mountaineering by Daniel Light
£12.99
David's Bookshop Playfair Cricket Annual 2025 by Ian Marshall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Saturday Afternoon Fever: The Autobiography by Jeff Stelling
£12.99
David's Bookshop Leading From The Back: My journey to the top of women's football by Steph Houghton
£12.99
David's Bookshop Transformer: Klopp, the Revolution of a Club and Culture by Neil Atkinson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sharing My Love of Cricket: Playing the Game and Spreading the Word by Henry Blofeld
£12.99
David's Bookshop Murdo! Murdo!: My Autobiography by Murdo MacLeod
£10.99
David's Bookshop Angeball: The Definitive Biography of Ange Postecoglou by Vince Rugari
£10.99
David's Bookshop Everything Happens for a Reason: My Life in Rugby by Danny Care
£10.99
David's Bookshop Unfiltered: My Incredible Decade in Formula 1 by Guenther Steiner
£10.99
David's Bookshop Inside Mercedes F1: Life in the Fast Lane of Formula One by Matt Whyman
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Paths: A History of How We Walk From Here To There by Jack Cornish
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Rising Down: Lives in a Landscape by Alexandra Harris
£12.99
David's Bookshop Wild Service: Why Nature Needs You by Nick Hayes
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Unknown Warrior: A Personal Journey of Discovery and Remembrance by John Nichol
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Princes in the Tower: How History's Greatest Cold Case Was Solved by Philippa Langley
£20.00
