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 Enchanted Ground: Growing Roots in a Broken World by Steven Lovatt (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon (SIGNED)
£28.00
David's Bookshop Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Chutzpah : A memoir of faith, sexuality and daring to stay by Yehudis Fletcher
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Always Winning by Ashley Walters
£20.00
David's Bookshop Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White
£25.00
David's Bookshop Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire by Corinne Fowler
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789 by Robert Darnton
£16.99
David's Bookshop Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck
£14.99
David's Bookshop Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore
£10.99
David's Bookshop Arnhem’s Last Para by John Humphreys & Stuart Tootal
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in Italy by James Holland
£10.99
David's Bookshop SAS 101 by Titch Cormack
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The People’s War: Unheard Voices: Life on the Battlefront and at Home in World War II by John Willis
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Roma: A Travelling History by Madeline Potter
£22.00
David's Bookshop Thomas More: A Life by Dr Joanne Paul
£30.00
David's Bookshop Sceptred Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century by Helen Carr (SIGNED, SPRAYED EDGE EDITION)
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti
£10.99
David's Bookshop Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett
£9.99
David's Bookshop Strangeland : How Britain Stopped Making Sense by Jon Sopel
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Coming Storm: Inside America’s Radical New Politics of Paranoia by Gabriel Gatehouse
£12.99
David's Bookshop Somebody Told Me : A Tale of Lies, Spies and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace
£7.99
David's Bookshop Year of the Rat : Undercover in the British Far Right by Harry Shukman
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Nobody Can Give You Freedom : The Real Mission of Malcolm X by Kehinde Andrews
£25.00
David's Bookshop Who is Government? : The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre
£10.99
David's Bookshop Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Knife : Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Pawtobiography: My adventures on Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog
£10.99
David's Bookshop My Family and Other Spies by Alistair Wood
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Perimeter: A Photographic Journey around the Coast of Britain by Quintin Lake
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Tree Hunting: 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland’s Towns and Cities by Paul Wood
£30.00
David's Bookshop Grow Your Groceries: 40 Hacks for Growing Plants from Your Weekly Shop by Simon Akeroyd
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro
£12.99
David's Bookshop Defining Style : The Book of Interior Design by Joan Barzilay Freund
£49.95
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 La Maison: Decorating with French vintage style by Zoe de Las Cases
£30.00
David's Bookshop Dopamine Home : A bold guide to mood-boosting interiors by Rachel Verney
£25.00
David's Bookshop Master The Art Of Colour : Practical Advice from the Room Renovations Expert by Tash Bradley
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Moments at Home : Interior Inspiration for Every Room by Steve Cordony
£35.00
David's Bookshop Small Space, Big Living : Interior design to make every inch count by Sofie Hepworth
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop A Handheld History by Lost in Cult
£35.00
David's Bookshop King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture: 2 by Clive Aslet
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Cocoon: Creating homes with heart by Ali Heath
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Curate : Inspiration for an Individual Home by Lynda Gardener & Ali Heath
£30.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard by Simon Jenkins
£12.99
