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 Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins
£15.99
David's Bookshop Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church by Peter Ross
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Life Eclectic: Brilliantly Unique Interior Designs from Around the World by Alexander Breeze
£35.00
David's Bookshop Create: At Home with Old & New by Ali Heath
£30.00
David's Bookshop A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from The Modern House by Matt Gibberd
£26.00
David's Bookshop Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness by Emanuele Coccia
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity by Polly Toynbee & David Walker
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Brutal Reckoning: The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
£12.99
David's Bookshop Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by Bell Hooks
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Thames & Hudson Introduction to Art by Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann & M.Kathryn Shields
£39.95
David's Bookshop Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
£22.99
David's Bookshop Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by David Cottington
£8.99
David's Bookshop Strange Impressions by Romaine Brooks
£10.95
David's Bookshop Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Stallabrass
£8.99
David's Bookshop Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes by Chloe Ashby
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Understand Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
£12.99
David's Bookshop Walking
£20.00
David's Bookshop Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart by Julia Cameron
£18.99
David's Bookshop How to Write About Contemporary Art by Gilda Williams
£16.99
David's Bookshop Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
£8.99
David's Bookshop The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
£35.00
David's Bookshop The V&A Book of Colour in Design
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Meaning of Art: Faber Modern Classics by Herbert Read
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans Ulrich Obrist
£14.99
David's Bookshop Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland
£9.99
David's Bookshop Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces by Susie Hodge
£15.99
David's Bookshop William Blake's Universe
£35.00
David's Bookshop Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin
£9.99
David's Bookshop Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
£7.99
David's Bookshop About Looking by John Berger
£14.99
David's Bookshop Landscapes: John Berger on Art by John Berger
£12.99
David's Bookshop Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
£9.99
David's Bookshop What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
£9.99
David's Bookshop Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop
£18.99
David's Bookshop Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty by Alexandre Kojeve
£10.95
David's Bookshop Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
£12.00
David's Bookshop Affinities by Brian Dillon
£13.99
David's Bookshop What is Black Art? by Alice Correia
£10.99
David's Bookshop Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask by Russell Tovey & Robert Diament
£25.00
David's Bookshop Talk Art The Interviews by Russell Tovey & Robert Diament
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
£7.99
David's Bookshop Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
£3.00
David's Bookshop Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia Freeland
£8.99
David's Bookshop Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
£10.99
