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 Ottolenghi Test Kitchen: Shelf Love
£25.00
David's Bookshop Pasta Masterclass: Recipes for Spectacular Pasta Doughs, Shapes, Fillings and Sauces, from The Pasta Man by Mateo Zielonka
£26.00
David's Bookshop The Whole Vegetable by Sophie Gordon
£28.00
David's Bookshop Ottolenghi COMFORT
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Myth of Normal: Ilness, Health and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
£19.99
David's Bookshop The Long-Winded Lady by Maeve Brennan
£12.99
David's Bookshop No Name in the Street by James Baldwin
£9.99
David's Bookshop Men Explain Things to Me: And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Furious Devotion: The Life of Shane Macgowan by Richard Balls
£12.99
David's Bookshop On Women by Susan Sontag
£10.99
David's Bookshop Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, Vol. 1 by Angela Y. Davis
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature's Ingredients by Pascal Baudar
£25.00
David's Bookshop How To Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead by Colin Greenwood (SIGNED SLIP-CASE EDITION)
£66.00 £50.00
David's Bookshop Unruly by David Mitchell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Flower Farming for Profit: The Complete Guide to Growing a Successful Cut Flower Business by Lennie Larkin
£40.00
David's Bookshop The Lean Micro Farm: How to Get Small, Embrace Local, Live Better, and Work Less by Ben Hartman
£30.00
David's Bookshop How They Broke Britain by James O'Brien
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Earth Transformed: An Untold History by Peter Frankopan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Patricia Highsmith: Her Diaries and Notebooks: The New York Years, 1941–1950
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Food For Life Cookbook: 100+ Recipes Created with ZOE by Tim Spector
£28.00
David's Bookshop Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth by Natalie Haynes
£10.99
David's Bookshop Too Much of Life by Clarice Lispector
£14.99
David's Bookshop Diane Arbus by Patricia Bosworth
£12.99
David's Bookshop Strong Female Character by Fern Brady
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ten Birds That Changed the World by Stephen Moss
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us by Nick Hayes
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Sheep’s Tale: The story of our most misunderstood farmyard animal by John Lewis-Stempel
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Forager's Calendar: A Seasonal Guide to Nature’s Wild Harvests by John Wright
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Owl: A Biography by Stephen Moss
£14.99
David's Bookshop Grass-Fed Beef for a Post-Pandemic World: How Regenerative Grazing Can Restore Soils and Stabilize the Climate by Ridge Shinn
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Woodchip Handbook: A Complete Guide for Farmers, Gardeners and Landscapers by Ben Raskin
£20.00
David's Bookshop Nourishment: What Animals Can Teach Us about Rediscovering Our Nutritional Wisdom by Fred Provenza
£20.00
David's Bookshop Cows Save the Planet: And Other Improbable Ways of Restoring Soil to Heal the Earth by Judith D. Schwartz
£13.99
David's Bookshop On Gallows Down: Place, Protest and Belonging by Nicola Chester
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rebugging the Planet by Vicki Hird
£12.99
David's Bookshop Wild Nights Out: The Magic of Exploring the Outdoors After Dark by Chris Salisbury
£14.99
David's Bookshop Toxic Legacy: How the Weedkiller Glyphosate Is Destroying Our Health and the Environment by Stephanie Seneff
£19.99
David's Bookshop The New Organic Grower by Eliot Coleman (3rd Edition, 30th Anniversary Edition)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The New Cider Maker's Handbook : A Comprehensive Guide for Craft Producers by Claude Jolicoeur
£40.00
David's Bookshop From What Is to What If: Unleashing the Power of Imagination to Create the Future We Want by Rob Hopkins
£11.99
David's Bookshop Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods, 2nd Ed. by Sandor Ellix Katz
£22.50
David's Bookshop Eating to Extinction: The World’s Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nomad Century: How to Survive the Climate Upheaval by Gaia Vince
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to Rewilding, Big and Small by Isabella Tree
£40.00
David's Bookshop Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Instant by Amy Liptrot
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
£16.99
