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 The Art of Repair: Mindful mending: how to stitch old things to new life by Molly Martin
£14.99
David's Bookshop White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
£9.99
David's Bookshop Footmarks: A Journey into Our Restless Past by Jim Leary
£10.99
David's Bookshop 1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That by Matt Dickinson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Understorey: A Year Among Weeds by Anna Chapman Parker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials by Alice Roberts
£10.99
David's Bookshop Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
£10.99
David's Bookshop Is Maths Real? : How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
£12.99
David's Bookshop Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
£7.99
David's Bookshop What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
£7.99
David's Bookshop Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Times Sir: The Year in Letters 2nd Edition
£9.99
David's Bookshop Britain’s Ghosts: A Spine-Chilling Tour of Our Most Haunted Places by Anna Groves
£12.99
David's Bookshop The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Console Chronicles by Lost in Cult
£40.00
David's Bookshop Around the World in 80 Games : A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Conflict : The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts
£12.99
David's Bookshop Quilts from the Country by Stuart Hillard
£25.00
David's Bookshop Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? by Guy Shrubsole
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Trouble With Being Born by E.M. Cioran
£9.99
David's Bookshop Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant
£18.99
David's Bookshop Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
£12.99
David's Bookshop Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner
£20.00
David's Bookshop 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre
£9.99
David's Bookshop Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
£12.99
David's Bookshop Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Psychopath Test : A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
£10.99
David's Bookshop So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The God Desire by David Baddiel
£9.99
David's Bookshop Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
£9.99
David's Bookshop Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
£10.99
David's Bookshop Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book) by Ian Dunt & Dorian Lynskey
£9.99
David's Bookshop Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance : 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
£10.99
David's Bookshop Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Violence by Hannah Arendt
£7.99
David's Bookshop The Unfamiliar : A Queer Motherhood Memoir by Kirsty Logan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Where the Hearth Is: Stories of home by Kate Humble
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Good Virus : The Mysterious Microbes that Rule Our World, Shape Our Health and Can Save Our Future by Tom Ireland
£12.99
David's Bookshop X Marks the Spot : An Adventurous History of Archaeology by Michael Scott
£12.99
David's Bookshop HISTORY HIT Guide to Medieval England : From the Vikings to the Tudors – and everything in between by History Hit
£16.99
David's Bookshop O Brother by John Niven
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Remembering and Forgetting by Octavia Bright
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
£7.99
David's Bookshop How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
£10.99
