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 Natural Wine, No Drama: An Unpretentious Guide by Honey Spencer
£25.00
David's Bookshop Corker: A Deeply Unserious Wine Book by Hannah Crosbie
£16.99
David's Bookshop Microwave Meals: Delicious Recipes to Save Time, Effort and Energy by Tim Anderson
£16.99
David's Bookshop Ugly: Why the world became beauty-obsessed and how to break free by Anita Bhagwandas
£10.99
David's Bookshop Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth by Cathi Unsworth
£10.99
David's Bookshop Human Rights, Robot Wrongs: Being Human in the Age of AI by Susie Alegre
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Prime Ministers We Never Had: Success and Failure from Butler to Corbyn by Steve Richards
£10.99
David's Bookshop Crazy Water, Pickled Lemons: Enchanting dishes from the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa
£26.00
David's Bookshop Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ultra-Processed People: Why Do We All Eat Stuff That Isn’t Food … and Why Can’t We Stop? by Chris van Tulleken
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Known Unknowns: The Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos by Lawrence M. Krauss
£9.99
David's Bookshop Strange Things Are Happening by Richard Norris
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Great Psychic Outdoors: Lo-Fi Music and Escaping Capitalism by Enrico Monacelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop First Floor Volume 1: Reflections on Electronic Music Culture by Shawn Reynaldo
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Sound of Being Human: How Music Shapes Our Lives by Jude Rogers
£9.99
David's Bookshop Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of the Sopranos by Michael Imperioli & Steve Schirripa
£9.99
David's Bookshop Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century by Dana Stevens
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lamestains: Grunge, Sub Pop and the Music of the Loser by Nicholas Attfield
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Complete Lyrics: 1978–2022 by Nick Cave
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Year with Swollen Appendices: Brian Eno's Diary by Brian Eno
£16.99
David's Bookshop Beeswing: Fairport, Folk Rock and Finding My Voice, 1967–75 by Richard Thompson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Tarkovsky: Films, Stills, Polaroids & Writings
£35.00
David's Bookshop Barbie: The Screenplay by Noah Baumbach & Greta Gerwig
£14.99
David's Bookshop Munkey Diaries by Jane Birkin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: The Comedy Classic
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Farmer's Wife by Helen Rebanks
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Collaborators: Three Stories of Deception and Survival in World War II by Ian Buruma
£10.99
David's Bookshop Why We Get the Wrong Politicians by Isabel Hardman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Dilla Time: The Life and Afterlife of J Dilla, the Hip-Hop Producer Who Reinvented Rhythm by Dan Charnas
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Complete Air Fryer Cookbook: Over 100 Easy, Energy-efficient Recipes for Every Meal
£16.99
David's Bookshop Rememberings by Sinead O'Connor
£10.99
David's Bookshop Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
£12.99
David's Bookshop Modern Nature: Journals, 1989 – 1990 by Derek Jarman
£12.99
David's Bookshop I Paint What I Want to See by Philip Guston
£9.99
David's Bookshop Rosen’s Almanac: Weird and wonderful words for every day of the year by Michael Rosen
£16.99
David's Bookshop New Cold Wars: China’s rise, Russia’s invasion, and America’s struggle to defend the West by David Sanger
£18.99
David's Bookshop Sleeping on Islands: A Life in Poetry by Sir Andrew Motion
£12.99
David's Bookshop Travels Over Feeling: Arthur Russell, a Life
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Craftivist Collective Handbook by Sarah P. Corbett
£22.00
David's Bookshop What Is Mine by Jose Henrique Bortoluci
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sebze: Vegetarian Recipes from My Turkish Kitchen by Ozlem Warren
£28.00
David's Bookshop Goodbye Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land by Jacob Mikanowski
£10.99
David's Bookshop Intervals by Marianne Brooker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Greekish: Everyday recipes with Greek roots by Georgina Hayden
£26.00
