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 Room to Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (SIGNED INDIE EDITION)
£10.99
David's Bookshop 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands (SIGNED)
£25.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold (SIGNED)
£25.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Breathe In, Breathe Out by Stuart Sandeman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Well Fed: How Modern Diets are Failing Us (and What We Can Do About it) by James Collier
£20.00
David's Bookshop Spring is the Only Season: How it Works, What it Does and Why it Matters by Simon Barnes
£18.99
David's Bookshop Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
£14.99
David's Bookshop Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
£14.99
David's Bookshop Dysphoria Mundi by Paul B. Preciado
£16.99
David's Bookshop Flower by Ed Atkins
£12.99
David's Bookshop Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman
£12.99
David's Bookshop The City and the World by Gregor Hens
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Possession by Annie Ernaux
£8.99
David's Bookshop David Lynch: His Work, His World by Tom Huddleston
£35.00
David's Bookshop Compost: Transform Waste into New Life by Charles Dowding
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Flower Garden for Pollinators: Learn how to sustain and support nature with this practical planting guide by Rachel de Thame
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Seed Hunter: Discover the World's Most Unusual Heirloom Plants by Mitch McCulloch
£27.00
David's Bookshop A Year Full of Veg: A Harvest for All Seasons by Sarah Raven
£27.00
David's Bookshop Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood by Adam Nicolson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Tough Plants: Garden gladiators that pack a punch in extreme weather by Val Bourne
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Kindest Garden: A Practical Guide to Regenerative Gardening by Marian Boswall
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop RHS Grow Your Own Veg Through the Year: 365 Days of Homegrown Vegetables & Herbs
£26.00
David's Bookshop Silvohorticulture: A grower's guide to integrating trees into crops by Andy Dibben and Ben Raskin
£20.00
David's Bookshop RHS Grow Food Anywhere: How to Plant the Right Crops in the Right Place and Help Your Garden Thrive by Lucy Chamberlain
£20.00
David's Bookshop Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
£22.00
David's Bookshop My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel
£10.99
David's Bookshop The God Desire by David Baddiel
£9.99
David's Bookshop Resistance by Steve McQueen
£25.00
David's Bookshop Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better by Tim Minshall
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Hidden Portraits: The untold stories of six women who loved Picasso by Sue Roe
£25.00
David's Bookshop Nettles and Petals: Grow Food. Eat Weeds. Save Seeds. by Jamie Walton
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott
£20.00
David's Bookshop William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love by Philip Hoare
£18.99
David's Bookshop Every Monument Will Fall: A Prehistory of the Culture War by Dan Hicks
£25.00
David's Bookshop Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
£20.00
David's Bookshop How To Art by Kate Bryan & TOTE BAG & PIN BADGE
£16.99
David's Bookshop Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook by Sarah Raven
£35.00
David's Bookshop Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Pregnancy Encyclopedia: All Your Questions Answered
£25.00
David's Bookshop When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Mate
£12.99
David's Bookshop Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) by Ed Winters
£10.99
David's Bookshop How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older by Michael Greger
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Life-Changing Magic of Quitting Alcohol by Sharon Hartley
£12.99
