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 A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts by Nigel Slater
£12.99
David's Bookshop You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life by Benji Waterhouse
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
£10.99
David's Bookshop Our Daily War by Andrey Kurkov
£10.99
David's Bookshop Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline by Paul Cooper
£12.99
David's Bookshop Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space by A.C. Grayling
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Slice of Fried Gold: Taste my Memories by Nick Frost
£10.99
David's Bookshop Make It Make Sense: The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties by Bel Hawkins & Lucy Blakiston
£10.99
David's Bookshop Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads by Amy Jeffs & Gwen Burns
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place by Michael J. Warren
£20.00
David's Bookshop Birthing by Davina McCall (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Inside by Boris Becker
£22.00
David's Bookshop Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Truly by Lionel Richie (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop RHS The Garden Almanac 2026: The month-by-month guide to your best ever gardening year
£14.99
David's Bookshop Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History by Vanessa Taylor
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Return of the Grey Partridge: Restoring Nature on the South Downs by Roger Morgan-Grenville & Edward Norfolk
£12.99
David's Bookshop Outdoor Tracking Handbook: How to find anything in the wild by Ray Mears
£19.99
David's Bookshop The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth by Anjana Khatwa
£25.00
David's Bookshop Philip's 2026 Stargazing Month-by-Month Guide to the Night Sky Britain & Ireland by Nigel Henbest
£6.99
David's Bookshop Night Sky Almanac 2026: A Stargazer’s Guide by Radmila Topalovic & Dominic Ford
£9.99
David's Bookshop First Light: Switching on Stars at the Dawn of Time by Emma Chapman
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sno: A History by Sverker Sorlin
£16.99
David's Bookshop Fishing Wisdom: A miscellany of angling anecdotes, facts and folklore by Dominic Garnett
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Wildflower Year: A Guide to Wildflowers, their Habitats & Histories by Frances Tophill
£18.99
David's Bookshop Night Life: Walking Britain’s wild landscapes after dark by John Lewis-Stempel
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time by Helen Gordon
£10.99
David's Bookshop Coastal Seas by Dr Frances Dipper & Dr Paul Naylor
£40.00 £36.00
David's Bookshop The Other Fab Four: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band by Mary McGlory
£10.99
David's Bookshop Loach on Loach: Updated edition by Graham Fuller
£14.99
David's Bookshop These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future by Philip Stephens
£25.00
David's Bookshop Keegan: The Man Who Was King by Anthony Quinn
£14.99
David's Bookshop Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker
£20.00
David's Bookshop Up the Youth Club: Illuminating a Hidden History by Emma Warren
£18.99
David's Bookshop A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer by Jenny Uglow
£25.00
David's Bookshop Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Girl in a Band: tenth anniversary edition by Kim Gordon
£12.99
David's Bookshop Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties by Robert Elms
£20.00
David's Bookshop It’s Not Just A Song by RuthAnne Cunningham
£22.00
David's Bookshop Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the race that is changing the world by Parmy Olson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Searching for Dexys Midnight Runners by Nige Tassell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire by Katie Prescott
£22.00
David's Bookshop Lush!: My Story - From Swansea to Stacey and Everything in Between by Joanna Page (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China's Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins by Barbara Demick (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Salt Stones: A Shepherd's World, a Shepherd's Mind by Helen Whybrow
£18.99 £17.10
