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 Last Safe Abortion by Carmen Winant
£45.00
David's Bookshop Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly by Sam Ashby
£35.00
David's Bookshop Origami Garden: 35 Butterflies, Birds, Flowers, and More to Fold in an Instant
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
£10.99
David's Bookshop Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions by James Davey
£25.00
David's Bookshop Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend. by Ranulph Fiennes
£12.99
David's Bookshop Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Earl and the Pharaoh: From the Real Downton Abbey to the Discovery of Tutankhamun by The Countess of Carnarvon
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cleopatra's Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen by Jane Draycott
£12.99
David's Bookshop Pharaohs of the Sun: Radio 4 Book of the Week, How Egypt's Despots and Dreamers Drove the Rise and Fall of Tutankhamun's Dynasty by Guy de la Bedoyere
£12.99
David's Bookshop TUTANKHAMUN: 100 years after the discovery of his tomb leading Egyptologist Joyce Tyldesley unpicks the misunderstandings around the boy king's life, death and legacy by Joyce Tyldesley
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Tomb of the Mili Mongga: Fossils, Folklore, and Adventures at the Edge of Reality by Samuel Turvey
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Greatest Invention: A History of the World in Nine Mysterious Scripts by Silvia Ferrara
£10.99
David's Bookshop Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire by Eckart Frahm
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Fens: Discovering England's Ancient Depths by Francis Pryor
£9.99
David's Bookshop Home: A Time Traveller's Tales from Britain's Prehistory by Francis Pryor
£12.99
David's Bookshop River Kings: The Vikings from Scandinavia to the Silk Roads by Cat Jarman
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons by Cat Jarman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay
£12.99
David's Bookshop Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Naked Neanderthal by Ludovic Slimak
£10.99
David's Bookshop Insectpedia: A Brief Compendium of Insect Lore by Eric R. Eaton
£12.99
David's Bookshop Dinopedia: A Brief Compendium of Dinosaur Lore by Darren Naish
£12.99
David's Bookshop Neuropedia: A Brief Compendium of Brain Phenomena by Eric H. Chudler
£12.99
David's Bookshop Birdpedia: A Brief Compendium of Avian Lore by Christopher W. Leahy
£12.99
David's Bookshop Treepedia: A Brief Compendium of Arboreal Lore by Joan Maloof
£12.99
David's Bookshop Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities by Marcia Bjornerud
£12.99
David's Bookshop Florapedia: A Brief Compendium of Floral Lore by Carol Gracie
£12.99
David's Bookshop Fungipedia: A Brief Compendium of Mushroom Lore by Lawrence Millman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Sharkpedia: A Brief Compendium of Shark Lore by Daniel Abel
£12.99
David's Bookshop Lichenpedia: A Brief Compendium by Kay Hurley
£10.99
David's Bookshop Local: A Search for Nearby Nature and Wildness by Alastair Humphreys
£12.99
David's Bookshop Late Light by Michael Malay
£10.99
David's Bookshop I Saw Ramallah by Mourid Barghouti
£9.99
David's Bookshop Enough: Scenes from Childhood by Sir Stephen CBE Hough
£10.99
David's Bookshop Face the Music: My Story by Alfie Boe
£10.99
David's Bookshop Four Ways of Thinking : Statistical, Interactive, Chaotic and Complex by David Sumpter
£10.99
David's Bookshop Gloves Off: Tyson Fury Autobiography by Tyson Fury
£10.99
David's Bookshop God and the Devil by Peter Cowie
£16.99
David's Bookshop My Wrexham Story: The Inspirational Autobiography From The Beloved Football Hero by Paul Mullin
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired our Brains and Conquered the World by Professor Joshua Paul Dale
£10.99
