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 Little Wild Library: Wild Rose: Simple Things to Do with the Plants Around You by Clare Gogerty
£8.99
David's Bookshop The Little Wild Library: Elder: Simple Things to Do with the Plants Around You by Clare Gogerty
£8.99
David's Bookshop Rough Guides Wild Earth: Discover the World's Wildest Places
£35.00
David's Bookshop An Animal Poem for Every Day of the Year by Jane McMorland Hunter
£25.00
David's Bookshop Gemini and Mercury Remastered by Andy Saunders
£50.00
David's Bookshop The Butterfly Spotter’s Guide by Matthew Oates
£9.99
David's Bookshop Dogpedia: A Brief Compendium of Canine Curiosities by Jessica Pierce
£12.99
David's Bookshop Spring Unfurled by Angela Harding
£12.99
David's Bookshop Falling into Autumn by Angela Harding
£12.99
David's Bookshop Treasured Trees by Christina Harrison & Martyn Rix
£20.00
David's Bookshop Bob the Robin: A true story of the friendship between one man and Britain's favourite garden bird by Tony Putman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lost Wonders: 10 Tales of Extinction from the 21st Century by Tom Lathan
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Garden A Day by Ruth Chivers
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Flower A Day by Miranda Janatka
£20.00
David's Bookshop An Insect A Day: Bees, bugs, and pollinators for every day of the year by Dominic Couzens & Gail Ashton
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Tree A Day by Amy-Jane Beer
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Bird A Day by Dominic Couzens
£22.95
David's Bookshop A Cloud A Day by Gavin Pretor-Pinney
£22.00
David's Bookshop Word Perfect: Etymological Entertainment Every Day by Susie Dent
£10.99
David's Bookshop Addicted to Anxiety by Owen O'Kane
£10.99
David's Bookshop Funny Thing, Getting Older: Reflections on life, storytelling and wonder by Michael Morpurgo
£20.00
David's Bookshop Funny Thing, Getting Older: Reflections on life, storytelling and wonder by Michael Morpurgo (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Art Cure: The science of how the arts transform our health by Daisy Fancourt
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Music as Medicine: How We Can Harness Its Therapeutic Power by Daniel Levitin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Moral Ambition: How to Find Your Purpose by Rutger Bregman
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Sound of Utopia: Musicians in the Time of Stalin by Michel Krielaars
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life by Donald Robertson
£11.99
David's Bookshop Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions by Terry Deary
£10.99
David's Bookshop Letters To Sartre by Simone de Beauvoir
£12.99
David's Bookshop Light and Thread by Han Kang
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Is That You, Petula?: An Autobiography by Petula Clark
£25.00
David's Bookshop Seriously Silly: The Life of Terry Jones (the authorised biography) by Robert Ross
£25.00
David's Bookshop Live Like Wes: Home Decor Inspired by Wes Anderson Movies by Jessie Atkinson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Fawlty Towers: Fawlts and All: A 50th anniversary celebration of the nation's beloved sitcom by John Cleese (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop All the Best for the Future: Growing Up Without Growing Old by Greg James
£22.00
David's Bookshop My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner
£10.99
David's Bookshop I Love You, Byeee: Rambles on DIY Tv, Rockstars, Kids and Mums by Adam Buxton
£10.99
David's Bookshop Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over: My Guide to Life by Michael Caine
£10.99
David's Bookshop Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop When Harry Met Sally... by Tamar Jeffers McDonald
£12.99
David's Bookshop Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris
£12.99
David's Bookshop Document and Eyewitness: An Intimate History of Rough Trade by Neil Taylor
£18.99
David's Bookshop Raised on Radio: Power Ballads, Cocaine and Payola: The AOR Glory Years 1976-1986 by Paul Rees
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop BOWIELAND: Walking In The Footsteps Of David by Peter Carpenter
£10.99
David's Bookshop What Do You Do When You're Lonesome: The Authorized Biography of Justin Townes Earle by Jonathan Bernstein
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Say Everything: A Memoir by Ione Skye
£10.99
