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 Lochs and Legends: A Scotsman's Guide to the Heart of Scotland by Andy the Highlander
£16.99
David's Bookshop Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Her Honour Wendy QC Joseph
£10.99
David's Bookshop In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945 by N A M Rodger
£40.00
David's Bookshop The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
£22.00
David's Bookshop Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker & Nathan Abrams
£20.00
David's Bookshop Down the Drain by Julia Fox
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
£10.99
David's Bookshop How Painting Happens (and why it matters) by Martin Gayford
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
£14.99
David's Bookshop Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
£10.99
David's Bookshop An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners by Fiona Davison
£12.00
David's Bookshop A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
£5.99
David's Bookshop Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
£12.99
David's Bookshop Inventing the Modern : Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art by Anna Deavere Smith
£40.00
David's Bookshop The World of Minecraft by Mojang AB
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech: Computer, Consoles & Games by Peter Leigh
£20.00
David's Bookshop Masters Of Doom: How two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture by David Kushner
£12.99
David's Bookshop Video Games: From Pong to the PS5 by Nicolo Mulas Marcello and Alberto Bertolazzi
£24.99
David's Bookshop How to Win At Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond by Levy Rozman
£20.00
David's Bookshop Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment by Stephen Flavall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979-1985
£45.00
David's Bookshop Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
£9.99
David's Bookshop Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
£9.99
David's Bookshop Icons of England by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Notes From A Big Country: Journey into the American Dream by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
£10.99
