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 Art as Therapy by Alain Botton & John Armstrong
£14.95
David's Bookshop Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Artist's Way: Luxury Hardback Edition by Julia Cameron
£25.00
David's Bookshop The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
£12.99
David's Bookshop Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
£10.99
David's Bookshop Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Grayson Perry
£9.99
David's Bookshop Ways of Seeing by John Berger
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Battle of the Arctic by Hugh Sebag Montefiore
£30.00
David's Bookshop From Under the Truck by Josh Brolin
£22.00
David's Bookshop Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates
£25.00
David's Bookshop Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome by Rachel Roddy
£20.00
David's Bookshop Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond by Geezer Butler
£10.99
David's Bookshop Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings
£12.99
David's Bookshop Spielberg : A Retrospective
£28.00
David's Bookshop ADHD Girls to Women : Getting on the Radar by Lotta Borg Skoglund
£12.99
David's Bookshop Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong by Vaudine England
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown by Alexander Larman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Answered Prayers : England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hungry Heart : How the food we love shapes our lives by Clare Finney
£9.99
David's Bookshop Football And How To Survive It by Pat Nevin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals by Rosie Harte
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Observant Walker : Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain by John Wright
£12.99
David's Bookshop Alan Partridge: Big Beacon : The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster by Alan Partridge
£10.99
David's Bookshop SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS by Damien Lewis
£9.99
David's Bookshop Dear Cisgender People : A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy by Kenny Ethan Jones
£16.99
David's Bookshop Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
£10.99
David's Bookshop Among Others : Friendships and Encounters by Michael Frayn
£12.99
David's Bookshop Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances : A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz by Eddie Piller
£12.99
David's Bookshop Bad Girls of Ancient Greece : Myths and Legends from the Baddies That Started it All by Lizzy Tiffin
£14.99
David's Bookshop Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
£16.99
David's Bookshop Back to the Local by Maurice Gorham
£10.00
David's Bookshop The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals: Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
£10.99
David's Bookshop Move Like Water : A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures by Hannah Stowe
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Thread of Violence : A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell
£9.99
David's Bookshop No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain by Harry Pearson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Making a Scene by Constance Wu
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca Smith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nazare : Life and Death with the Big Wave Surfers by Matt Majendie
£12.99
David's Bookshop Tree-spotting : A Simple Guide to Britain's Trees by Nell Bennett & Ros Bennett
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
£10.99
David's Bookshop Edgeland : Walking the South West Coast Path by Sasha Swire
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know by David Hone
£12.99
David's Bookshop An Uneasy Inheritance : My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee
£10.99
David's Bookshop Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera by Jonathan Miles
£12.99
David's Bookshop Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Leathercraft Handbook: 20 Unique Projects for Complete Beginners by Candice Lau
£22.00
