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 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
David's Bookshop Zao Fan: Breakfast of China by Michael Zee
£26.00
David's Bookshop Fevered Planet: How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by John Vidal
£10.99
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
