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 How High: A Portrait of The Charlatans by Tim Burgess & Tom Sheehan
£35.00
David's Bookshop Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud by Rose Boyt
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Be a Goth: Notes on Undead Style by Tish Weinstock
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
£18.00
David's Bookshop Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting by Johnny Carter Cash & Mark Stielper
£40.00
David's Bookshop The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape by Thomas Pakenham
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Wonder of Insects: Uncovering their Hidden World: Fully Illustrated with 70 Stunning Species by Ross Piper
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Prophet: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Kahlil Gibran
£12.99
David's Bookshop Autobiography of a Yogi: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Paramahansa Yogananda
£12.99
David's Bookshop Meditations: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Marcus Aurelius
£12.99
David's Bookshop Think and Grow Rich: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Napoleon Hill
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Art of War: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Sun Tzu
£12.99
David's Bookshop Strangeland: A special 20th anniversary edition of one of Britain's most acclaimed artist's memoir by Tracey Emin
£20.00
David's Bookshop WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives by Duncan Harris
£45.00
David's Bookshop Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Ultimate Works by Keith Stuart
£50.00
David's Bookshop Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
£20.00
David's Bookshop Cat: On The Road To Find Out by Yusuf/Cat Stevens
£25.00
David's Bookshop From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
£10.99
David's Bookshop Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer
£22.00
David's Bookshop Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance by Joe Mulhall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers
£18.99
David's Bookshop Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney
£35.00
David's Bookshop Patti Smith: Horses, Paris 1976 by Claude Gassian
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Greengrass Papers by Tom Shone
£30.00
David's Bookshop Rumours of My Demise: A Memoir by Evan Dando
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
£22.00
David's Bookshop Insomnia by Robbie Robertson
£25.00
David's Bookshop Rebel Without a Cause by Glyn Davis
£12.99
David's Bookshop The 'Before' Trilogy by Lucas Hilderbrand
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer's Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead... by Adam Rockoff
£9.99
David's Bookshop Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power Of Story by John Yorke
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema by Ericka Knudson
£26.00
David's Bookshop The Hidden Seasons by Tristan Gooley (SIGNED INDIE EDITION)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Fun Lovin’ Criminal by Huey Morgan (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Emerald Drifters by Cig Harvey
£39.95
David's Bookshop Leo Villareal: Coding Light
£59.95
David's Bookshop Tom Sachs Guide
£69.95
David's Bookshop The Contemporary Garden
£44.95
David's Bookshop You’re Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan
£10.99
David's Bookshop 2026 Guide to the Night Sky: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Britain and Ireland
£7.99
David's Bookshop A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown
£10.99
David's Bookshop Drinking the World: A Wine Odyssey by Bert Blaize & Victoria Brzezinski
£22.00
David's Bookshop Words for Life: That Will Make Every Day Better by Susie Dent (SIGNED)
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness – WINNER OF THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING by Amy-Jane Beer
£10.99
