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 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 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
David's Bookshop The Last Drop: Solving the World's Water Crisis by Tim Smedley
£11.99
David's Bookshop Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
£12.99
David's Bookshop One Midsummer's Day: Swifts and the Story of Life on Earth by Mark Cocker
£12.99
David's Bookshop Staying Alive in Toxic Times: A Seasonal Guide to Lifelong Health by Dr Jenny Goodman
£16.99
David's Bookshop Getting Healthy in Toxic Times by Jenny Goodman
£16.99
David's Bookshop What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Book of Sea Shanties by Nathan Evans
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater by Jeff Maynard
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Marches: Border walks with my father by Rory Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards by Peter Ross
£10.99
David's Bookshop Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
£10.99
David's Bookshop Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Hike Around the Lake District by Tom Chesshyre
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Tourist : What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour … Until Now! by Phil Tufnell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
£10.99
David's Bookshop World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Places In Between: A vivid account of a death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan by Rory Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie
£10.99
David's Bookshop Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
£12.99
David's Bookshop Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Ballantyne
£8.99
David's Bookshop Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency by Barnabas Calder
£10.99
David's Bookshop How to Build Impossible Things: Lessons in Life and Carpentry by Mark Ellison
£10.99
David's Bookshop 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know by Philip Wilkinson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
£10.99
