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 School of Life Guide to Modern Manners: how to navigate the dilemmas of social life by The School of Life
£9.99
David's Bookshop Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Older I Get… : How I repowered my life by Fern Britton
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
£10.99
David's Bookshop Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
£9.99
David's Bookshop Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
£10.99
David's Bookshop France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain by Julian Jackson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
£9.99
David's Bookshop Lismore Castle: Food and Flowers from a Historic Garden by Lady Laura Cavendish
£38.95
David's Bookshop The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
£10.99
David's Bookshop Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
£10.99
David's Bookshop SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Professor Mary Beard
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
£10.99
David's Bookshop SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: The International Bestseller by Rashid I. Khalidi
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Professor Peter Frankopan
£16.99
David's Bookshop The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
£12.99
David's Bookshop Goth: A History by Lol Tolhurst
£10.99
David's Bookshop Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell
£25.00
David's Bookshop Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach
£12.99
David's Bookshop Guitar by Earl Slick & Jeff Slate
£10.99
David's Bookshop 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
£10.99
David's Bookshop Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
£10.99
David's Bookshop Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back by Sophie Yeo
£10.99
David's Bookshop It's Not Just You by Tori Tsui
£10.99
David's Bookshop Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar by Chantal Lyons
£11.99
David's Bookshop Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction by John Vaillant
£12.99
David's Bookshop Confidence: 8 steps to knowing your worth by Roxie Nafousi
£16.99
David's Bookshop Mythic Plants: Potions and Poisons from the Gardens of the Gods by Ellen Zachos
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Medicinal Garden: Treat, feed and soothe straight from your garden by Caroline Parker
£19.99
David's Bookshop For the Love of Plants: Over 150 Plants to Bring Joy to Your Garden and Your Life by Adam Frost
£22.00
David's Bookshop Gardeners' World: The Flower Thesaurus: Colourful Pairings and Plant Ideas for the Creative Gardener by Liz Potter
£26.00
David's Bookshop The Permaculture Garden: A Practical Approach to Year-round Harvests by Huw Richards
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Container Gardening Handbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Flowers in Pots by Isabelle Palmer
£14.99
David's Bookshop Weathering by Ruth Allen
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Money-Saving Garden Year: A Month-by-month Guide to a Great Garden that Costs Less by Anya Lautenbach
£16.99
David's Bookshop Wonderlands: British Garden Designers at Home by Clare Coulson
£40.00
David's Bookshop Drawing Nature: 100 Prompts, Projects and Playful Exercises by Viktorija Semjonova
£14.99 £13.50
David's Bookshop The Good Slug Guide: How to tackle the slugs and snails in your garden and help save the planet by Jo Kirby
£12.99
David's Bookshop Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens by Arthur Parkinson
£14.99
David's Bookshop Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography by Tony Peake
£30.00
