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 Heat by Nick James
£12.99
David's Bookshop Black Girl (La noire de...) by Vlad Dima
£12.99
David's Bookshop Pink Flamingos: A Screenplay by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Desperate Living: A Screenplay by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Flamingos Forever: A Screenplay by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Jaws by Antonia Quirke
£12.99
David's Bookshop 50 Film Ideas You Really Need to Know by Helen O’Hara
£9.99
David's Bookshop Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle by Werner Herzog
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music by Mark Kermode
£18.99
David's Bookshop Hanyo (The Housemaid) by Youngmin Choe
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Iconic Films by Nicolas Rapold
£25.00
David's Bookshop Studio Ghibli Kiki's Delivery Service: 30 Postcards
£13.99
David's Bookshop Colours of Wes Anderson: The Films in Palettes by Hannah Strong
£16.99
David's Bookshop From Under the Truck: A Memoir by Josh Brolin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog
£14.99
David's Bookshop Taylor Swift: Album by Album by Kase Wickman, Joanna Weiss & Moira McAvoy
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Chronology of Film: A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen by Ian Haydn Smith
£19.99
David's Bookshop It Used to be Witches: Under the Spell of Queer Cinema by Ryan Gilbey
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Wes Anderson Dictionary : An A–Z of the iconic director and his work, from Asteroid City to Steve Zissou by Sophie Monks Kaufman
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Quentin Tarantino Dictionary : An A–Z of the iconic director and his work, from AK-47 to Zed by Helen O'Hara
£16.99
David's Bookshop Leave the Gun, Take the Cannoli : The Epic Story of the Making of The Godfather by Mark Seal
£10.99
David's Bookshop Screen Deep : How film and TV can solve racism and save the world by Ellen E. Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade
£9.99
David's Bookshop Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
£28.00
David's Bookshop Story by Robert Mckee
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Forest Is the Path by Gary Lightbody
£14.99
David's Bookshop Calling Una Marson: The Extraordinary Life of a Forgotten Icon by June Sarpong & Jennifer Obidike
£20.00
David's Bookshop Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World by Maxim Samson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Carthage by Eve MacDonald
£22.00
David's Bookshop Homo Criminalis: How Organised Crime Organises the World by Mark Galeotti
£22.00
David's Bookshop King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
£25.00
David's Bookshop Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island by Mike Pitts
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots by Jonathan Mahler
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Life and Death of King Richard III by Anthony Cheetham
£30.00
David's Bookshop Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind by Harry Sidebottom
£25.00
David's Bookshop Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train by Monisha Rajesh
£22.00
David's Bookshop War and Power by Phillips Payson O'Brien
£22.00
David's Bookshop Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural by Ben Machell
£22.00
David's Bookshop Born: A History of Childbirth by Lucy Inglis
£25.00
David's Bookshop All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now by Ruby Tandoh
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Rage of Party by George Owers
£30.00
David's Bookshop Dark London: A Journey Through the City's Mysterious and Macabre Underworld by Dr. Drew Gray
£16.99
David's Bookshop Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox
£25.00
David's Bookshop Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy by Eleanor Doughty
£30.00
David's Bookshop Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Times Sir: The Year in Letters 2025
£9.99
