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 Captain de Havilland's Moth by Alexander Norman
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Wise: Finding Purpose, Meaning and Wisdom Beyond the Midpoint of Life by Frank Tallis
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Base Notes: Scenes from a Northern Girlhood by Adelle Stripe
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Endometriosis From Harm to Hope: A Chronic Illness Guide by Casey Berna
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir by Tareq Baconi
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Between Two Rivers by Moudhy Al-Rashid
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Single: Building a Complete Life on Your Own by Nicola Slawson
£14.99 £13.49
David's Bookshop Thank You For Calling the Lesbian Line: A Hidden History of Queer Women by Elizabeth Lovatt
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop School Isn't For Everyone (and what you can do instead): A Practical Neuro-affirming Guide to Unschooling by Heidi Steel
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Hormone Havoc: A Science-Backed Protocol for Perimenopause and Menopause by Dr Amy Shah
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets by Dorothy Armstrong
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Being Old...and learning to love it! by Prue Leith
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Mother to Mother by Rosie Kelly Smith
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Another World by Melvyn Bragg (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Another World by Melvyn Bragg
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Death of Trotsky: The True Story of the Plot to Kill Stalin’s Greatest Enemy by Josh Ireland
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop No One Wants to See Your D*ck: A Handbook for Survival in the Digital World by Jess Davies
£14.99 £13.49
David's Bookshop Lost in the Forest by Colin Heber-Percy
£10.99 £9.89
David's Bookshop Bare by Lorna Tucker
£10.99 £9.89
David's Bookshop Lawless Republic: The Rise of Cicero and the Decline of Rome by Josiah Osgood
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Not Needing New: A Practical Guide to Finding the Joy of Enough by Anna Kilpatrick
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War by Lyndal Roper
£14.99 £13.49
David's Bookshop Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop Radio Universe: How to Explore Space Without Leaving Earth by Emma Chapman
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Tattooed Hills: Journeys to Chalk Figures by Jon Woolcott
£17.99
David's Bookshop How to Age: Supercharge Your Health and Feel Better Than Ever by Liz Earle
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Dad’s Army: The Glorious True Story of the Home Guard by Sinclair McKay
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Ritual by Alice Roberts
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Roman Empire by Train with Alice Roberts: My Travel Diary by Professor Alice Roberts
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Medicine Tree: Repairing the Rotten Roots of England by Nick Hayes
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Eat Bitter: A Story About Guts and Food by Lydia Pang
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: The Meaning of George Michael by Sathnam Sanghera (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Feeling Fabulous by Ruth Langsford (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana & Hwang Sunwoo (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£16.99
David's Bookshop Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal by Eric Schlosser
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Israel: A Personal History by Goran Rosenberg
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop The Nazi Mind: Twelve Warnings From History by Laurence Rees
£10.99 £9.89
David's Bookshop The Layered Home: Inspiration for Creating Cosy, Collected Rooms by Benjamin Reynaert
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Finding Albion: Myth, Folklore and the Quest for a Hidden Britain by Zakia Sewell
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Queen Elizabeth II by Hugo Vickers
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross
£10.99 £8.99
David's Bookshop Hungry: A Biography of My Body by Katriona O'Sullivan
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop The Christmas Tree that Loved to Dance by Miranda Hart
£16.99
David's Bookshop Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire by Emma Southon
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop To the Edge of the World: A Perilous Storm, A Mutinous Crew and the Woman Who Defied Them All by Tilar J. Mazzeo
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Happy Mind, Happy Life: 10 Simple Ways to Feel Great Every Day by Dr Rangan Chatterjee
£10.99 £9.89
