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 Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Notorious Cold War Killer by Ulrik Skotte
£10.99
David's Bookshop Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It by Sam Freedman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI by James Muldoon, Mark Graham & Callum Cant
£10.99
David's Bookshop Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
£14.99
David's Bookshop Anima: A Wild Pastoral by Kapka Kassabova
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Striker and the Clock by Georgia Cloepfil
£9.99
David's Bookshop All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil by Stephen Alford
£12.99
David's Bookshop Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Cove: A Cornish Haunting by Beth Lynch
£10.99
David's Bookshop Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane Cooper
£12.99
David's Bookshop Holding the Line: A true story of female-led resilience from the bestselling author of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
£12.99
David's Bookshop A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel by Dr Sara Caputo
£12.99
David's Bookshop Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus by John Haywood
£14.99
David's Bookshop Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton
£10.99
David's Bookshop The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean by Olive Heffernan
£11.99
David's Bookshop This Earthly Globe by Andrea di Robilant
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further by Lavinia Greenlaw
£10.99
David's Bookshop Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 by Andrew Hindmoor
£16.99
David's Bookshop Queen Catherine’s Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England by Sophie Shorland
£12.99
David's Bookshop We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest by Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Wimbledon: A personal history by Sue Barker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Dead Weight: On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating by Emmeline Clein
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Secret Public: A Queer History of Pop by Jon Savage
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Music, Survival and Hope by Roxanne de Bastion
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Heart of the Woods by Wyl Menmuir
£10.99
David's Bookshop Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence by Mishal Husain
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck
£10.99
David's Bookshop Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos by Keith Lowe
£12.99
David's Bookshop Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Richard Fortey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sanctuary by Marina Warner
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
£18.99
David's Bookshop Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
£12.99
David's Bookshop Downfall: The Self-Destruction of the Conservative Party by Nadine Dorries
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Plot: The Shocking Inside Story of Who Really Runs Britain by Nadine Dorries
£10.99
David's Bookshop Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed by Grace Blakeley
£10.99
David's Bookshop No Way Out: Brexit: from the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
£10.99
David's Bookshop More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain by David Horspool
£12.99
David's Bookshop Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time by Helen Molesworth
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season by Lara Maiklem
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book of the Frog by Sally Coulthard
£10.99
David's Bookshop Folklore of the Sea: Myths and Legends of the Maritime World by Margaret Baker
£14.99
