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 Berserker!: The deeply moving and brilliantly funny memoir from one of Britain's most beloved comedians by Adrian Edmondson
£10.99
David's Bookshop How We Fish: The Love, Life and Joy of the Riverbank by Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Savage Storm: The Heroic True Story of One of the Least told Campaigns of WW2 by James Holland
£10.99
David's Bookshop Space: A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake by Tim Peake
£12.99
David's Bookshop Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That by Dylan Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant by Nick Curtola
£30.00
David's Bookshop Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
£10.99
David's Bookshop Beastly: The Epic 40,000-Year History of Animals and Us by Keggie Carew
£10.99
David's Bookshop UpCycled Beauty: Transform Everyday Ingredients into No-Waste Beauty Products by UpCircle
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Green Camping Book: How to camp sustainably, ethically and responsibly by Martin Dorey
£23.00
David's Bookshop The Rest is History by Dr Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
£10.99
David's Bookshop Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
£10.99
David's Bookshop Overleaf: An Album of British Trees by Susan Ogilvy
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape by Tiffany Francis-Baker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Uprooting : From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden by Marchelle Farrell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Apple: A Delicious History by Sally Coulthard
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean by Susan Casey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mountains of Fire: The Secret Lives of Volcanoes by Clive Oppenheimer
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mars: A Beginner’s Guide to Exploring the Red Planet
£8.99
David's Bookshop The Stones of Britain: A Geological History by Jon Cannon
£30.00
David's Bookshop Mindful Escapes Meditation Cards: Discover inner calm wherever you are - 55 cards
£14.99
David's Bookshop This Allotment: Stories of Growing, Eating and Nurturing
£14.99
David's Bookshop Prospect Cottage: Derek Jarman's House by Gilbert McCarragher
£25.00
David's Bookshop Party Lines: Dance Music and the Making of Modern Britain by Ed Gillett
£12.99
David's Bookshop My Mama, Cass: A Memoir by Owen Elliot-Kugell
£25.00
David's Bookshop No Dig: Nurture Your Soil to Grow Better Veg with Less Effort by Charles Dowding
£30.00
David's Bookshop Start Growing: A Year of Joyful Gardening for Absolute Beginners by Daisy Payne
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Gardening Book by Monty Don
£30.00
David's Bookshop Seeds: Grow Your Own Cut Flowers from Scratch by Milli Proust
£14.00
David's Bookshop Grow to Eat: Growing Colourful And Tasty Vegetables From Seed by Rob Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop Collins Botanical Bible: A Practical Guide to Wild and Garden Plants
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Complete Gardener: A Practical, Imaginative Guide to Every Aspect of Gardening by Monty Don
£30.00
David's Bookshop Pharmacopoeia: A Dungeness Notebook by Derek Jarman
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Money-Saving Gardener: Create Your Dream Garden at a Fraction of the Cost by Anya Lautenbach
£16.99
David's Bookshop Gardener's Folklore: The Ancient Secrets for Gardening Magic by Margaret Baker
£14.99
David's Bookshop Always Add Lemon by Danielle Alvarez
£20.00
David's Bookshop Tenderheart: A Book About Vegetables and Unbreakable Family Bonds by Hetty Lui McKinnon
£35.00
David's Bookshop Sofra: Lebanese Recipes to Share by Karima Hazim Chatila & Sivine Tabbouch
£27.00
David's Bookshop The Monday Pasta Club: 60 Pasta Recipes for Every Occasion by Ed Barrow
£22.00
David's Bookshop Persian Feasts: Recipes & Stories from a Family Table by Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller, Lila Charif & Laya Khadjavi
£34.95
David's Bookshop Good Time Cooking: Show-Stopping Menus for Easy Entertaining by Rosie MacKean
£26.00
David's Bookshop The Good Farm Cookbook: Everyday family recipes for a nourishing, hopeful life by Scott Gooding & Matilda Brown
£20.00
David's Bookshop What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking by Caroline Chambers
£30.00
David's Bookshop sketch by Mourad Mazouz & Pierre Gagnaire
£75.00
David's Bookshop Mangal II: Stories and Recipes by Ferhat and Sertac Dirik
£34.95
David's Bookshop Turkuaz Kitchen: Traditional and Modern Dough Recipes for Sweet and Savoury Bakes by Betul Tunc
£25.00
