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 Stranger in the Woods: 'A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival' by Michael Finkel
£9.99
David's Bookshop WITCH: An Anthology by Michelle Tea
£13.99
David's Bookshop Permaculture: Planting the seeds of radical regeneration by Maya Blackwell
£8.99
David's Bookshop Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country by Anna Jones
£10.99
David's Bookshop What Grows Together: Fail-safe Plant Combinations for Every Garden by Jamie Butterworth
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Cutting Garden: Growing and Arranging Garden Flowers by Sarah Raven
£25.00
David's Bookshop Grow Your Own Cut Flowers: a practical, step-by-step guide to growing the best flowers to pick and arrange at home by Sarah Raven
£30.00
David's Bookshop Planting a Paradise: A year of pots and pollinators by Arthur Parkinson
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Flower Yard: Growing Flamboyant Flowers in Containers by Arthur Parkinson
£25.00
David's Bookshop Hen Party: A Celebration by Arthur Parkinson
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison
£10.99
David's Bookshop Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler by Sinclair McKay
£25.00
David's Bookshop Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
£10.99
David's Bookshop How to Win the Premier League: The Inside Story of Football’s Data Revolution by Ian Graham
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum by Daniel Tammet
£10.99
David's Bookshop Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
£14.99
David's Bookshop Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World by Simon Hall
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Position of Spoons: and other intimacies by Deborah Levy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Victory in Australia: The Remarkable Story of England's Greatest Ashes Triumph 1954-55 by Richard Whitehead
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Vertigo: The Rise and Fall of Weimar Germany by Harald Jahner
£10.99
David's Bookshop Patria: Lost Countries of South America by Laurence Blair
£12.99
David's Bookshop Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo
£10.99
David's Bookshop Slugs: A Manifesto (Expanded Edition) by Abi Palmer
£14.00
David's Bookshop Land Beneath the Waves: How the Natural World Helped One Woman Navigate Chronic Illness, Self-Acceptance and Belonging by Nic Wilson (SIGNED)
£18.99
David's Bookshop A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
£12.99
David's Bookshop Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
£9.99 £9.00
David's Bookshop In Praise of the Earth: A Journey into the Garden by Byung-Chul Han
£16.99
David's Bookshop Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
£10.99
David's Bookshop True Colors: Color in Photography from 1849 to 1955
£45.00 £40.50
David's Bookshop Janaina Tschape: Painting with the Wind by Doris von Drathen
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Senga Nengudi: Populated Air by A.B. Spellmann
£39.95 £36.00
David's Bookshop Helen Frankenthaler: Move and Make by Douglas Dreishpoon
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future by Julia Voss & Daniel Birnbaum
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop William Eggleston: The Last Dyes
£50.00
David's Bookshop Mamma Andersson: Adieu Maria Magdalena
£40.00
David's Bookshop Raymond Saunders: Post No Bills
£60.00
David's Bookshop Avian Inspiration: Art and Design Inspired by Birds
£32.00 £28.80
David's Bookshop Killing the Nerve by Anna Pazos
£13.99
David's Bookshop Melbourne Hall Garden by Jodie Jones
£35.00
David's Bookshop 200 Years of Britain's Railways in 14 Journeys by Sherin Aminosse
£35.00
David's Bookshop Literary Gardens: The imaginary gardens of writers and poets by Sandra Lawrence
£19.99
David's Bookshop On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey by Tom Allan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Intertidal: The hidden world between land and sea by Yuvan Aves
£22.00
