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 An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts
£22.00
David's Bookshop Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski
£40.00
David's Bookshop Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot by Paul Beaver
£10.99
David's Bookshop Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
£10.99
David's Bookshop Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity by Manu S Pillai
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull
£30.00
David's Bookshop Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw
£30.00
David's Bookshop Great British Menu
£28.00
David's Bookshop How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary
£8.99
David's Bookshop Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known about Menopause by Naomi Watts
£22.00
David's Bookshop When Things Don’t Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Giving Up by Adam Phillips
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t) by Philippa Perry
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
£10.99
David's Bookshop Unleashed by Boris Johnson
£30.00
David's Bookshop Love in Exile by Shon Faye
£20.00
David's Bookshop Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations by Neil Oliver
£10.99
David's Bookshop Into the Uncanny by Danny Robins
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe by James Patterson
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Starling: A Biography by Stephen Moss
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
£14.99
David's Bookshop Mornings With My Cat Mii by Mayumi Inaba
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel
£16.99
David's Bookshop Muslims Don't Matter by Sayeeda Warsi
£14.99
David's Bookshop Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America by Saidiya Hartman
£14.99
David's Bookshop Rebel Takes: On the Future of Food by Catherine Joy White
£12.99
David's Bookshop Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self by Annabel Abbs
£10.99
David's Bookshop Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner & Howard Gardner
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Very Short History of the Israel–Palestine Conflict by Ilan Pappe
£9.99
David's Bookshop Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad
£9.99
David's Bookshop Still Waters & Wild Waves by Angela Harding
£25.00
David's Bookshop Art Hole by Joe Lycett
£35.00
David's Bookshop Simply Jamie: Fast & Simple Food by Jamie Oliver
£30.00
David's Bookshop Akikomatic: The Work of Akiko Stehrenberger (Second Edition) by Akiko Stehrenberger
£44.99
David's Bookshop Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
£10.99
David's Bookshop Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas
£10.99
David's Bookshop Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
£9.99
David's Bookshop Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding Of The Universe by Harry Cliff
£10.99
