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 Falastin: A Cookbook by Sami Tamimi & Tara Wigley
£28.00
David's Bookshop Illegitimate Authority: Facing the Challenges of Our Time by Noam Chomsky and C.J. Polychroniou
£8.99
David's Bookshop What's the Use?: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics by Professor Ian Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop Fungal Inspiration: Art & Illustration Inspired By Wild Nature
£32.00
David's Bookshop Mythos by Stephen Fry
£10.99
David's Bookshop Devil-Land: England Under Siege 1588-1688 by Clare Jackson
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Penguin History of Modern Spain: 1898 to the Present by Nigel Townson
£14.99
David's Bookshop Sensitive: The Power of a Thoughtful Mind in an Overwhelming World by Jenn Granneman & Andre Solo
£10.99
David's Bookshop Henry 'Chips' Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1: 1918-38)
£15.99
David's Bookshop Bringing Down Goliath: How Good Law Can Topple the Powerful by Jolyon Maugham
£12.99
David's Bookshop How Trees Can Save the World by Peter Wohlleben
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Plant-Based Farmhouse: Wholefood Recipes From My House on the Hill by Cherie Hausler
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Pebble Spotter's Guide
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Shell Spotter's Guide
£9.99
David's Bookshop Britain's Landmarks and Legends: The Fascinating Stories Embedded in Our Landscape
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Treasury of Folklore: Waterlands, Wooded Worlds and Starry Skies by Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham
£20.00
David's Bookshop Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers: Sirens, Selkies and Ghost Ships by Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham
£14.99
David's Bookshop Treasury of Folklore: Woodlands and Forests: Wild Gods, World Trees and Werewolves by Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham
£14.99
David's Bookshop Treasury of Folklore: Stars & Skies by Willow Winsham
£14.99
David's Bookshop Weird Walk: Wanderings and Wonderings through the British Ritual Year
£19.99
David's Bookshop Cloven Country: The Devil and the English Landscape by Jeremy Harte
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Tulip Garden: Growing and Collecting Species, Rare and Annual Varieties by Polly Nicholson
£29.95
David's Bookshop Lovebug by Daisy Lafarge
£10.99
David's Bookshop Coffee First, Then the World: One Woman's Record-Breaking Pedal Around the Planet by Jenny Graham
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sluts by Michelle Tea
£11.99
David's Bookshop Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life by Amy Key
£10.99
David's Bookshop Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tom Kerridge Cooks Britain
£25.00
David's Bookshop Collapse Feminism: The Online Battle for Feminism's Future by Alice Cappelle
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Carving: A Journey to the Heart of Making by David Esterly
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tomatoes and Basil on the 5th Floor by Patrick Vernuccio
£14.99
David's Bookshop Buying & Arranging Cut Flowers - The Essential A-Z Guide by Judith Blacklock
£14.99
David's Bookshop Floristry: 14 Seasonal Projects to Enjoy in Your Home by Milli Proust
£14.00
David's Bookshop The Cut Flower Handbook: Select, Plant, Grow, and Harvest Gorgeous Blooms by Lisa Mason Ziegler
£22.00
David's Bookshop Second Nature: The Story of a Naturalist's Garden by Susie White
£12.99
David's Bookshop Planting Wildflowers: A Grower's Guide by Jane Moore
£14.00
David's Bookshop The Wildlife Garden by John Lewis-Stempel
£14.99
David's Bookshop Into the Weeds: How to Garden Like a Forager by Tama Matsuoka Wong
£22.00
David's Bookshop Gardeners’ World: A Year in a Small Garden by Frances Tophill
£26.00
David's Bookshop A Year Full of Pots: Container Flowers for All Seasons by Sarah Raven
£27.00
David's Bookshop The Self-Sufficiency Garden: Feed Your Family and Save Money by Huw Richards & Sam Cooper
£16.99
David's Bookshop Edible Garden: Bloom Gardener's Guide by Vicky Chown
£12.99
David's Bookshop Growing Mushrooms at Home: The Complete Guide to Knowing, Growing and Loving Fungi by Elliot Webb
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Resilient Garden and Allotment Handbook by Sally Morgan
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Resilient Farm and Homestead, Revised and Expanded Edition: 20 Years of Permaculture and Whole Systems Design by Ben Falk
£40.00
David's Bookshop Anansi's Gold: The Man Who Swindled the World by Yepoka Yeebo
£12.99
