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
ArtCookery & Food WritingCultural StudiesEconomicsFilm & TVGardening & FloristryHealthHistoryLanguagesMusicPhilosophyPoliticsPopular ScienceSportTransportTravel Writing
Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop Be a Birder: My love of birdwatching and how to get started by Hamza Yassin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Shadows At Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century by Joya Chatterji
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Raised Bed Book: Get the Most from Your Raised Bed, Every Step of the Way by DK
£20.00
David's Bookshop Papercraft: Unique projects in paper to cut, fold, and create by Hattie Newman
£16.99
David's Bookshop Heroines by Kate Zambreno
£14.99
David's Bookshop Bill Edrich: The Many Lives of England's Cricket Great by Leo McKinstry
£22.00
David's Bookshop Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Willow Maclay & Caden Gardner
£12.99
David's Bookshop Kammy: My Unbelievable Life by Chris Kamara
£10.99
David's Bookshop Oh Miriam!: Stories from an Extraordinary Life by Miriam Margolyes
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Complete Guide to Low-Fire Glazes for Potters and Sculptors: Techniques, Recipes, and Inspiration for Low-Temperature Firing with Big Results by Ben Carter
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Artist's Palette: The palettes behind the paintings of 50 great artists by Alexandra Loske
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop A World of Our Own: Women Artists Against the Odds by Frances Borzello
£30.00
David's Bookshop CRASH BANG: Pictures from a Punk 1976-1981 by DB Burkeman
£28.99
David's Bookshop Expressive Type : Expressive Type in Graphic Design Today by Jon Dowling
£20.00
David's Bookshop In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and its Consequences by Truman Capote
£9.99
David's Bookshop Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
£10.99
David's Bookshop Poet, Mystic, Widow, Wife: The Extraordinary Lives of Medieval Women by Hetta Howes
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Britannias: And the Islands of Women by Alice Albinia
£12.99
David's Bookshop La Vie: A year in rural France by John Lewis-Stempel
£9.99
David's Bookshop Snipping the Stress Away: A Collage Activity Journal by Rebeka Elizegi
£16.99
David's Bookshop Riso Art: A Creative's Guide to Mastering Risography by Vivian Toh & Jay Lim
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Eagle and the Lion: Rome, Persia and an Unwinnable Conflict by Adrian Goldsworthy
£16.99
David's Bookshop Bazball: The inside story of a Test cricket revolution by Nick Hoult & Lawrence Booth
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Other Pandemic: How QAnon Contaminated the World by James Ball
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 by David Kynaston
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Long History of the Future: Why tomorrow's technology still isn't here by Nicole Kobie
£18.99
David's Bookshop Civilisations: How Do We Look / The Eye of Faith by Mary Beard
£12.99
David's Bookshop Murdle: The School of Mystery: 50 Seriously Sinister Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles by G.T. Karber
£10.99
David's Bookshop Murdle: More Killer Puzzles : 100 Fiendishly Foul Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles by G.T. Karber
£14.99
David's Bookshop Murdle : #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER: Solve 100 Devilishly Devious Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles by G.T. Karber
£14.99
David's Bookshop Murdle: Even More Killer Puzzles: 100 Cunningly Clever Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles by G.T. Karber
£14.99
David's Bookshop 70 Easy Card Tricks: A beginner's guide to magic by Peter Arnold
£12.99
David's Bookshop On Some Faraway Beach: The Life and Times of Brian Eno by David Sheppard
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
£18.99
David's Bookshop Finding Your Feet: The how-to guide to hiking and adventuring by Rhiane Fatinikun
£22.00
David's Bookshop How Herbs Healed the World: And Other Stories of Remarkable Plants by Connor Smith
£22.00
David's Bookshop Lords of Crypto Crime: The Race to Bring Down the World’s Invisible Kingpins by Andy Greenberg
£10.99
David's Bookshop Pax: War and Peace in Rome's Golden Age by Tom Holland
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Secret Life of John le Carre by Adam Sisman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Travelling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by Ann Powers
£25.00
David's Bookshop Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
£15.99
David's Bookshop Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency by Olivia Laing
£9.99
David's Bookshop Daybook: The Journal of an Artist by Anne Truitt
£12.99
David's Bookshop What Artists Wear by Charlie Porter
£14.99
David's Bookshop Alice Neel: Freedom by Helen Molesworth
£35.00
David's Bookshop Alice Neel: The Art of Not Sitting Pretty by Phoebe Hoban
£25.00
David's Bookshop Avocado Anxiety: and Other Stories About Where Your Food Comes From by Louise Gray
£10.99
