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 Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. by Oliver Burkeman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M Sapolsky
£12.99
David's Bookshop Technofeudalism : What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler
£10.99
David's Bookshop Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
£9.99
David's Bookshop On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life by Theresa May
£12.99
David's Bookshop It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
£10.99
David's Bookshop Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
£9.99
David's Bookshop Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant
£9.99
David's Bookshop Johnson at 10: The Inside Story: The Bestselling Political Biography of 2023 by Anthony Seldon & Raymond Newell
£12.99
David's Bookshop But What Can I Do? : Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
£10.99
David's Bookshop Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
£12.99
David's Bookshop How Westminster Works...and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema by Andrey Tarkovsky
£27.99
David's Bookshop Role Models by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Legend of Mad Max by Ian Nathan
£25.00
David's Bookshop Notes On The Cinematograph by Jonathan Griffin & Robert Bresson
£11.99
David's Bookshop Hitchcock by Francois Truffaut
£25.00
David's Bookshop My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone
£25.00
David's Bookshop Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks & Rick Edwards
£10.99
David's Bookshop Colours of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes by Charles Bramesco
£18.99
David's Bookshop Audrey in Paris by Caroline Young
£16.99
David's Bookshop Managing Expectations by Minnie Driver
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
£9.99
David's Bookshop Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
£10.99
David's Bookshop Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger Lewis
£12.99
David's Bookshop Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
£10.99
David's Bookshop Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor by Matthew McConaughey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
£12.99
David's Bookshop Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
£12.99
David's Bookshop Right Kind of Wrong: How the Best Teams Use Failure to Succeed by Amy Edmondson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Chief Shepherdess: Lessons in Life, Love and Farming by Zoe Colville
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape by Allyson Levy & Scott Serrano
£30.00
David's Bookshop Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll
£14.99
David's Bookshop You Will Get Through This Night by Daniel Howell
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting
£10.99
David's Bookshop How to Fish by Christopher Yates
£14.99
