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 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
David's Bookshop Ghosts in the Hedgerow: who or what is responsible for our favourite mammal’s decline by Tom Moorhouse
£10.99
David's Bookshop Twelve Words for Moss by Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Observable Universe by Heather McCalden
£14.99
David's Bookshop None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary by Travis Alabanza
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Woman's Story by Annie Ernaux
£9.99
David's Bookshop By the River: Essays from the Water's Edge
£9.99
David's Bookshop Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein
£10.99
David's Bookshop Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life & Sudden Death by Laura Cumming
£12.99
David's Bookshop A Flat Place by Noreen Masud
£10.99
David's Bookshop All That She Carried: The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake by Tiya Miles
£12.99
David's Bookshop How To Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir by Safiya Sinclair
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lune: Croissants All Day, All Night by Kate Reid
£30.00
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
