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 Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour by Mark Haddon
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to Live by Amber Husain
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Frontierlands: Britain’s Survival in the Making by Hazel Sheffield
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule by Helene Landemore
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Bonded by Evolution: What We’ve Got Wrong About Love and Connection by Paul Eastwick
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Bimbo by Ashley James
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Learning from Silence: Finding clarity and calm in a world of mounting uncertainty by Pico Iyer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Starchild: My Life Under the Night Sky by Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Essential Anna Politkovskaya by Anna Politkovskaya
£12.99
David's Bookshop Becoming George: The Invention of George Sand by Fiona Sampson
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Tiny Gardens Everywhere: A History of Urban Resilience by Kate Brown
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
£11.99
David's Bookshop Nailed It!: The Essential Guide to Do it Yourself by Laura Deller
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop We Know You Can Pay a Million: Inside the Dark Economy of Hacking and Ransomware by Anja Shortland
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop The Unfragile Mind: Making Sense of Mental Health by Gavin Francis
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Children of Abraham: The Story of Jewish-Muslim Relations by Marc David Baer
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea: Journeys through Ancient Literature by Emily Wilson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Grasslands: The Intricate Life of Britain's Hidden Habitats by John Wright
£14.99 £13.50
David's Bookshop The Age of Alchemy: How Early Innovators Shaped Modern Chemistry by Dr Kit Chapman
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Hinterlands: Journeys through Europe’s Unfinished Frontiers by Hannah Lucinda Smith
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old by Professor Mary Beard
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Ancient: Reviving the Woods that Made Britain by Luke Barley
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Love Machines: How Artificial Intelligence is Transforming Our Relationships by James Muldoon
£12.99
David's Bookshop Alive: An Alternative Anatomy by Gabriel Weston
£12.99
David's Bookshop Alone in Japan: A Journey to the Future by Tom Feiling
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Sisters, Saints and Sibyls by Nan Goldin
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop The Art of the Book: 75 Years of Thames & Hudson by Anna Nyburg
£50.00 £45.00
David's Bookshop The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: Magic Arts and the Occult Revival by Felix John Taylor
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Lynne Tillman: Paying Attention by Lynne Tillman
£35.00
David's Bookshop Cabin: Into the Woods with a Clueless Craftsman by Patrick Hutchison
£18.99
David's Bookshop Down to Earth by Monty Don
£16.99
David's Bookshop Our Secrets Are The Same: Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple Minds by Charlie Burchill, Graeme Thomson & Jim Kerr
£25.00
David's Bookshop When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between: A Story of Love and Friendship by James Corden & Ruth Jones
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Winter Dictionary: A Collection of Words for the Festive Season by Paul Anthony Jones
£10.99
David's Bookshop Willie, Willie, Harry, Stee: An Epically Short History of Our Kings and Queens by Charlie Higson
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Northern Bank Job: The Heist and How They Got Away with It by Glenn Patterson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Apothecary's Wife: The Hidden History of Medicine and How It Became a Commodity by Karen Bloom Gevirtz
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Thistle and The Rose by Linda Porter
£12.99
David's Bookshop Greek To Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World by John Davie
£14.99
David's Bookshop Tadej Pogacar: Unstoppable by Andy McGrath
£20.00
David's Bookshop Leo XIV: The New Pope and Catholic Reform by Christopher R. Altieri
£20.00
David's Bookshop Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life by Ana Garriga & Carmen Urbita
£16.99
David's Bookshop Bread of Angels by Patti Smith & TOTE BAG
£25.00
David's Bookshop Truly by Lionel Richie
£25.00
David's Bookshop All the Best for the Future: Growing Up Without Growing Old by Greg James (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Seven Brief Lessons on Physics: Anniversary Edition by Carlo Rovelli (SIGNED)
£10.99
David's Bookshop Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A Biography of A. A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh by Gyles Brandreth
£25.00
David's Bookshop Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions by Terry Deary (SIGNED)
£22.00
