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 Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower by Andrew Bayliss
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature by Dr Prema Arasu
£25.00
David's Bookshop Extraordinary Islands: An atlas of unlikely places by Alastair Bonnett
£20.00
David's Bookshop Short History of Ancient Rome by Pascal Hughes
£20.00
David's Bookshop Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions by Terry Deary
£22.00
David's Bookshop Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City by Peter Ackroyd
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Build a Spitfire by David Price
£25.00
David's Bookshop Queens at War by Alison Weir
£25.00
David's Bookshop Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession With Mourning and Death by Paul Gambino
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
£25.00
David's Bookshop On Antisemitism: A Word in History by Mark Mazower
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Glass Mountain: Escape and Discovery in Wartime Italy by Malcolm Gaskill
£25.00
David's Bookshop Crucible of Light: Islam and the forging of Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century by Elizabeth Drayson
£30.00
David's Bookshop Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Big Payback: the case for reparations for slavery and how they would work by Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession by Caitlin Blackwell Baines
£22.00
David's Bookshop I'm No Expert, But … : Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Vol. 17
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival by Serhii Plokhy
£30.00
David's Bookshop Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain by Nicholas Wright
£22.00
David's Bookshop Capitalism: A Global History by Sven Beckert
£50.00 £45.00
David's Bookshop Advance Britannia: The Monumental Story of the Second World War: 1942-1945 by Alan Allport
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Year of Feasting & Festivities: A Celebration of the Seasons by Lia Leendertz
£10.00
David's Bookshop A Cheesemonger's Compendium of British & Irish Cheese by Ned Palmer
£14.99
David's Bookshop How the Cookie Crumbles: And Other Culinary Confusions by Tara Wigley
£16.99
David's Bookshop Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2026
£15.99
David's Bookshop A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France by Ned Palmer
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Travels by Marco Polo
£18.99
David's Bookshop Travels with Charley : In Search of America by John Steinbeck
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
£9.99
David's Bookshop Bothy Tales : Footsteps in the Scottish hills by John D. Burns
£9.99
David's Bookshop Now Then: The Story of Yorkshire and its People by Rick Broadbent
£10.99
David's Bookshop Island Dreams : Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
£10.99
David's Bookshop To the Island of Tides : A Journey to Lindisfarne by Alistair Moffat
£10.99
David's Bookshop To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Living Stones : Cornwall by Ithell Colquhoun
£10.99
David's Bookshop brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe & Reuben Coe
£10.99
David's Bookshop Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Old Ways : A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
£12.99
David's Bookshop As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Meaning of Beer: An Alternative History of the World by Jonny Garrett
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Drowned Places : Diving in Search of Atlantis by Damian Le Bas
£20.00
David's Bookshop Storm Pegs : A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield
£10.99
