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 Mind Games by John Lennon & Yoko Ono
£45.00
David's Bookshop Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz by Vivien Goldman
£22.00
David's Bookshop Black Arsenal
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer
£14.99
David's Bookshop Thoroughly Modern: The pioneering life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, photographer, and her brilliant Bohemian friends
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
£12.99
David's Bookshop Troy: Our Greatest Story Retold by Stephen Fry
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Chinese Myths: A Guide to the Gods and Legends by Tao Tao Liu
£14.99
David's Bookshop Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth: Sea Stories and Folktales from Around the World by Gerry Smyth
£19.99
David's Bookshop Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain by Amy Jeffs
£12.99
David's Bookshop Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
£10.99
David's Bookshop Greek Myths: A new retelling of your favourite myths that puts female characters at the heart of the story by Charlotte Higgins
£9.99
David's Bookshop Heroes: The myths of the Ancient Greek heroes retold by Stephen Fry
£10.99
David's Bookshop Woman's Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi by Sarah Clegg
£10.99
David's Bookshop Milk: An Intimate History of Breastfeeding by Joanna Wolfarth
£9.99
David's Bookshop Fallen Idols: History is not erased when statues are pulled down. It is made. by Alex von Tunzelmann
£14.99
David's Bookshop The History Hit Miscellany of Facts, Figures and Fascinating Finds introduced by Dan Snow by History Hit
£16.99
David's Bookshop Letters for the Ages Behind Bars: Letters from History's Most Famous Prisoners by Jonathan Aitken
£20.00
David's Bookshop Unexplained: Based on the 'world's spookiest podcast' by Richard MacLean Smith
£12.99
David's Bookshop About Time: A History of Civilization in Twelve Clocks by David Rooney
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Guru, the Bagman and the Sceptic: A story of science, sex and psychoanalysis by Seamus O'Mahony
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Haunting of Borley Rectory: The Story of a Ghost Story by Sean O'Connor
£10.99
David's Bookshop Migrants: The Story of Us All by Sam Miller
£12.99
David's Bookshop Ignorance: A Global History by Peter Burke
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession by David Grann
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions by Adam Kuper
£12.99
David's Bookshop Elixir: A Story of Perfume, Science and the Search for the Secret of Life by Theresa Levitt
£12.99
David's Bookshop Vital Organs by Suzie Edge
£12.99
David's Bookshop Atlas of Unexpected Places: Haphazard Discoveries, Chance Places and Unimaginable Destinations by Travis Elborough
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mozart in Italy: Coming of Age in the Land of Opera by Jane Glover
£12.99
David's Bookshop Listen: On Music, Sound and Us by Michel Faber
£10.99
David's Bookshop You Had to Be There by Jodie Harsh
£20.00
David's Bookshop Women in Revolt!: Art and Activism in the UK 1970–90
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Use of Photography by Annie Ernaux
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Question of Palestine by Edward Said
£14.99
David's Bookshop Hope I Get Old Before I Die by David Hepworth
£25.00
David's Bookshop A New Day Yesterday: UK Progressive Rock and the 1970s by Mike Barnes
£14.99
David's Bookshop Too Much Too Young: The 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Daniel Rachel
£12.99
David's Bookshop Atlas of Paranormal Places: A Journey to the World's Most Supernatural Places by Evelyn Hollow
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Men Who Stare At Goats by Jon Ronson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Conspiracy Tourist: Travels Through a Strange World by Dom Joly
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Fran Lebowitz
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Little Devil in America: In Praise of Black Performance by Hanif Abdurraqib
£10.99
David's Bookshop The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
£10.99
David's Bookshop Masquerade: The Lives of Noel Coward by Oliver Soden
£14.99
David's Bookshop Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays The Rent by Judi Dench
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tinseltown: Hollywood and the Beautiful Game - a Match Made in Wrexham by Ian Herbert
£12.99
