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 Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture by Matthew Ingram
£14.99
David's Bookshop RHS Slugs: Friend or Foe?: Know Your Slugs and Learn to Live With Them by Royal Horticultural Society
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Water-Efficient Gardener: Sustainable techniques for growing in a changing climate by Angela Youngman
£20.00
David's Bookshop Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship by Ryan Blosser & Trevor Piersol
£21.99
David's Bookshop Kitchen Garden Living: Seasonal Growing and Eating from a Beautiful, Bountiful Food Garden by Bailey Van Tassel
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers by John Seymour
£27.00
David's Bookshop Beginner's Guide to Self Sufficiency Projects for the Home: Grow Edibles, Raise Animals, Live Off The Grid & DIY
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound by Raymond Antrobus
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Farm Shop Guide: Farm-to-Fork Food by Laura Collacott
£17.99
David's Bookshop How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency by Piers Warren
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Joyful Environmentalist: How to Practise without Preaching by Isabel Losada
£12.99
David's Bookshop Allotment Gardening: An Organic Guide for Beginners by Susan Berger
£16.99
David's Bookshop Not the End of the World: Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth by Hannah Ritchie
£10.99
David's Bookshop New Wild Order: how answering the call of the wild might just save your life (and sanity) by Andy Hamilton
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, Revised Edition: An All-Natural Approach to Raising and Breeding Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers by Harvey Ussery
£35.00
David's Bookshop Many Hands Make a Farm: 47 Years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community, and Building an Organic Movement by Jack Kittredge & Julie Rawson
£20.00
David's Bookshop Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness by Michael Foley
£14.99
David's Bookshop Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy by Matthew Evans
£14.99
David's Bookshop Whistling in the Dark by Richard Mabey
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Allotment by Colin Ward & David Crouch
£16.00
David's Bookshop The Wild Garden by William Robinson
£14.00
David's Bookshop On Silbury Hill by Adam Thorpe
£14.00
David's Bookshop Going to Ground: An anthology of nature and place edited by Jon Woolcott
£16.00
David's Bookshop Brightening from the East by Ken Worpole
£16.00
David's Bookshop Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future by Monica Feria-Tinta
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers by Dr Chris Thorogood
£12.99
David's Bookshop Environomics: How the Global Economy is Going Green by Dharshini David
£10.99
David's Bookshop Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable by Will Potter (PRE-ORDER)
£13.99
David's Bookshop Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them by Tim Lang
£12.99
David's Bookshop Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of Our Oceans by Karen Pinchin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
£9.99
David's Bookshop The English Path by Kim Taplin
£14.00
David's Bookshop A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects by Sally Coulthard
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Curious Life of the Cuckoo by John Lewis-Stempel
£9.99
David's Bookshop In Search of the Perfect Peach: Why flavour holds the answer to fixing our food system by Franco Fubini
£20.00
David's Bookshop Renewing Earth: A Global Exploration of the Roots of a Regenerative Future by Kelsey Timmerman
£21.99
David's Bookshop The Future of Agriculture by Sarah Bearchell
£9.99
David's Bookshop Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World by James Canton
£18.99
David's Bookshop Tank: The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable Men Behind Them by Mark Urban
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren
£40.00
David's Bookshop Deep House : The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Meditations for Mortals: A Four Week Guide to Doing What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray
£10.99
David's Bookshop PATRIOT by Alexei Navalny
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
£10.99
