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 Secret Life of the Periodic Table : Unlocking the mysteries of all 118 elements by Dr Dr Ben Still
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Secret Life of Equations: The 50 Greatest Equations and How They Work by Richard Cochrane
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells us about the Power of the Female Body by Starre Vartan
£22.00
David's Bookshop Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere by Rob Jackson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sink or Swim : How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate by Susannah Fisher
£18.99
David's Bookshop When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... : Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage by Steven Pinker
£25.00
David's Bookshop Human Peoples : On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation by Lluis Quintana-Murci (PRE-ORDER)
£10.99
David's Bookshop Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs by David Hone & Mark Witton
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Brief History of Intelligence : Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of Ai by Max Bennett
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Hidden Life of Trees : What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben
£9.99
David's Bookshop What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
£10.99
David's Bookshop How To : Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd by Randall Munroe
£10.99
David's Bookshop Dopamine Nation : Why our Addiction to Pleasure is Causing us Pain by Dr Anna Lembke
£10.99
David's Bookshop Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole : Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Dr Allan Ropper & Brian David Burrell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Our Brains, Our Selves : What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain by Masud Husain
£20.00
David's Bookshop Breakthrough : How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn to Fail and Embrace the Unknown by Camilla Pang
£10.99
David's Bookshop Impossible Monsters : How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World by Michael Taylor
£12.99
David's Bookshop Systemic: How Racism Harms Health – and What We Can Do About It by Dr Layal Liverpool
£10.99
David's Bookshop Every Living Thing : The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
£12.99
David's Bookshop Our Moon : A Human History by Rebecca Boyle
£10.99
David's Bookshop Alien Earths: The Search for Life in the Cosmos by Lisa Kaltenegger
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Harder I Fight The More I Love You: A Memoir by Neko Case
£25.00
David's Bookshop Curated Style : Artfully edited homes by Kerrie-Ann Jones
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Not for Art's Sake by Quentin Blake
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Colour of Clothes : Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907-1930 by Cally Blackman
£75.00 £67.50
David's Bookshop Screenprints (Victoria & Albert Museum): A History by Gill Saunders
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Life and Death of Peter Sellers by Roger Lewis
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk by Lally MacBeth
£20.00
David's Bookshop Joysticks to Haptics: A Visual History of Video Game Controllers by Lost in Cult
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Press Start: The Complete History of Video Gaming From Mario to Minecraft by Erwan Cario
£30.00
David's Bookshop Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now by Fiona Rogers & Max Houghton
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Little Frog's Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog by Maybell Eequay
£8.99
David's Bookshop Alexander McQueen
£30.00
David's Bookshop The History of Art in One Sentence: 500 Years of Art (But Funny) by Verity Babbs
£14.99
David's Bookshop Poor Artists by The White Pube
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ralph Steadman (Mini Edition): A Life in Ink by Ralph Steadman
£23.00 £19.99
David's Bookshop Jane Birkin: Icon of Style by Sophie Gachet
£50.00
David's Bookshop Dog Affirmations: An Illustrated Journey Through Your Dog's Thoughts by Andrea Caceres
£9.99
David's Bookshop Painting Woodland Watercolors: Learn to Paint Beautiful Mushrooms, Animals, Insects, and Other Forest Wonders by Rita Gould
£17.99
David's Bookshop Grime: Documenting the Scene’s Rise and Reign by Roony Keefe
£30.00
David's Bookshop Local Haunts by Adam Scovell
£11.99
David's Bookshop Wanda by Elena Gorfinkel
£12.99
David's Bookshop Some Like It Hot by Steven Cohan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Walking with Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secret Stories of Prehistoric Life
£25.00
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