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 Very Private School by Charles Spencer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Never Understood: The Story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by William Reid, Jim Reid
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hunt for the Shadow Wolf by Derek Gow
£12.99
David's Bookshop Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species by Derek Gow
£12.99
David's Bookshop Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory by Stephen Fisher
£10.99
David's Bookshop Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic
£10.99
David's Bookshop 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Reimagined Home: Sustainable Spaces Created with Joy by Nicole Gray
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Clouds by Susan E. Clark
£10.00
David's Bookshop Bees by Susan E. Clark
£10.00
David's Bookshop Ferns: Lessons in Survival From Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants by Fay-Wei Li & Jacob S. Suissa
£30.00
David's Bookshop Piece by Piece: 20 Modern Patchwork and Quilting Projects to Make from Preloved Fabrics by Lauren MacDonald
£18.99 £15.20
David's Bookshop Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat by Jane Moore
£14.00
David's Bookshop Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing by John Berger
£11.99
David's Bookshop Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
£11.99
David's Bookshop Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures by Luke Sherlock
£15.99
David's Bookshop Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker
£18.99 £16.99
David's Bookshop The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
£22.99 £19.99
David's Bookshop A New English Style: Timeless Interiors by Mary Graham, Nicole Salvesen & David Nicholls
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Hortobiography by Carol Klein
£10.99
David's Bookshop Bird Lore: The Myths, Folklore and Meaning of Birds by Sally Coulthard
£15.00
David's Bookshop All Things Considered: Thoughtful Interior Design that Mixes Pattern, Colour and Style by Emilio Pimentel-Reid
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Art in Residence: Collected Objects and the Architectural Homes They Live In by Nicole England
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel by Mark Gatter & Andy McKee
£16.99 £15.30
David's Bookshop Crafting with Flowers: Celebrate the Seasons with 20 Floral Projects by Bex Partridge
£16.99
David's Bookshop Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, from the Human League to Pulp by Jamie Taylor
£12.99
David's Bookshop Curepedia: The Story of The Cure by Simon Price
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Silver Snarling Trumpet by Robert Hunter
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music by Jamie Collinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
£22.00
David's Bookshop Loud Medicine: Dispatches from the Music Industry Underworld by James Kennedy
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Songs In The Key of MP3 : The New Icons of the Internet Age by Liam Inscoe-Jones
£20.00
David's Bookshop Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir by Mark Hoppus
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor Raymonde and Me by Simon Raymonde
£10.99
David's Bookshop Uncommon People : Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs by Miranda Sawyer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Never: The Autobiography by Rick Astley
£10.99
David's Bookshop Brothers by Alex Van Halen
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cher: The Memoir, Part Two by Cher
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop So Tell Me What You Want : A life working with pop idols Take That, Prince, Amy Winehouse, the Spice Girls, David Bowie and more by Nicki Chapman
£10.99
David's Bookshop 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer by Ian Wade
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why rock stars never retire by David Hepworth
£10.99
David's Bookshop Finding My Voice: A Story of Strength, Self-Belief and S Club by Rachel Stevens
£10.99
David's Bookshop Under A Rock by Chris Stein
£12.99
David's Bookshop Down with the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend by Serj Tankian
£12.99
