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 Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future by Alan Weisman
£25.00
David's Bookshop Solitary Bees by Ted Benton & Nick Owens
£65.00 £50.00
David's Bookshop Woodston: The Biography of An English Farm - The Sunday Times Bestseller by John Lewis-Stempel
£10.99
David's Bookshop Steel River: Walking the Tees – A Journey Through Nature in a Human World by Steve Nicholls
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Fenland Garden: Creating a haven for people, plants & wildlife by Francis Pryor
£12.99
David's Bookshop In Search of One Last Song: Britain’s Disappearing Birds and the People Trying to Save Them by Patrick Galbraith
£9.99
David's Bookshop Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Countryside by Patrick Galbraith
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Book of Vanishing Species: Illustrated Lives by Beatrice Forshall
£25.00
David's Bookshop How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy by Julian Baggini
£25.00
David's Bookshop Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood by Matthew Evans
£16.99
David's Bookshop Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby
£25.00
David's Bookshop In the Garden: Essays on nature and growing
£9.99
David's Bookshop Words from the Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside by Richard Negus
£16.99
David's Bookshop English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
£10.99
David's Bookshop Living with the Earth: Volume 3: Creating a Microfarm: 3 by Perrine Herve-Gruyer
£35.00
David's Bookshop La Cucina di Terroni: The Cookbook by Cosimo Mammoliti
£27.00
David's Bookshop The Madrusan Cocktail Companion | Every drink worth drinking in the history of modern + classic cocktails : 3400+ cocktails with contributions from 100 of the world's best bartenders by Zara Madrusan & Michael Madrusan
£35.00
David's Bookshop Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking by Anthony Bourdain
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Writer's Table: Famous authors and their favourite recipes by Valerie Stivers
£19.99
David's Bookshop Spinning Plates: Easy Dinners with Simple Substitutions for Busy Families by Anna Stanford
£22.00
David's Bookshop German Home Kitchen: Traditional Recipes That Capture the Flavors of Germany by Sophie Sadler
£20.00
David's Bookshop Classic Koffmann: A Chef’s Cookbook by Pierre Koffmann
£30.00
David's Bookshop Home by India Knight
£22.00
David's Bookshop 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers by Keith Cameron (SIGNED)
£68.00 £60.00
David's Bookshop RSPB Birding Year: Seasonal tips and activities to learn about bird behaviour by Dominic Couzens & Sian Duncan
£16.99
David's Bookshop Restoring the Wild: Creation, Restoration and Management by Donald MacIntyre
£24.00
David's Bookshop Biodynamic Gardening: Organic Growing Guided by the Moon for Bountiful Harvests
£22.00
David's Bookshop Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James Crawford
£12.99
David's Bookshop A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins
£10.99
David's Bookshop Spring: The Story of a Season by Michael Morpurgo
£16.99
David's Bookshop Homeward Bound: The joy of nature and my life outdoors by Hamza Yassin (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke
£22.00
David's Bookshop The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates
£20.00
David's Bookshop Softly, as I Leave You by Priscilla Presley (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop England: A Natural History by John Lewis-Stempel
£10.99
David's Bookshop Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History by Myles Dungan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives by Adam Smyth
£12.99
David's Bookshop Obsessed: The Autobiography by Johnny Sexton
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability by Annette Kehnel
£11.99
David's Bookshop Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wild Woman: Empowering Stories from Women who Work in Nature by Philippa Forrester
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book of ABBA: The Inside Story of the World's Favourite Band by Jan Gradvall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness by Nathalie Olah
£10.99
David's Bookshop Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
£10.99
