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 Michael Palin in Venezuela by Michael Palin (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind by Harry Sidebottom (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Self-Fed Farm and Garden: A Return to the Roots of the Organic Method by Eliot Coleman
£22.95 £20.65
David's Bookshop The Book of Bogs: Stories from a Yorkshire Moor and other Peatlands
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Amateurs!: How We Built Internet Culture and Why it Matters by Joanna Walsh
£16.99
David's Bookshop Blackout by Yann Chateigne Tytelman
£9.99
David's Bookshop Palestine is everywhere
£13.99
David's Bookshop Dog Days by Emily LaBarge
£12.99
David's Bookshop Words Are My Matter: Writings on Life and Books by Ursula K.Le Guin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Ultimate Hidden Truth of the World by David Graeber
£10.99
David's Bookshop Things That Disappear: Reflections and Memories by Jenny Erpenbeck
£12.99
David's Bookshop Significant Others by frank r. jagoe
£15.00
David's Bookshop The Site of Memory by Toni Morrison
£7.99
David's Bookshop The Cosmic Oval by Ella Finer
£8.99
David's Bookshop Total Eclipse by Annie Dillard
£7.99
David's Bookshop Good and Evil: 12 Philosophers on How to Live
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Long Game: How to Write Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken
£14.99
David's Bookshop Monique Escapes by Edouard Louis
£14.99
David's Bookshop We All Come Home Alive: A Life in Shocks by Anna Beecher
£10.99
David's Bookshop Backstage: Stories of a writing life by Donna Leon
£9.99
David's Bookshop I Dream of Joni: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell in 53 Snapshots by Henry Alford
£10.99
David's Bookshop Part of the Story: Writings from Half a Century by Margaret Busby
£22.00
David's Bookshop Essays by Lydia Davis
£12.99
David's Bookshop Representations of the Intellectual by Edward W. Said
£12.99
David's Bookshop Fires Which Burned Brightly: A Life in Progress by Sebastian Faulks (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Enough Said by Alan Bennett
£25.00
David's Bookshop Travels with Agatha Christie by David Suchet (SIGNED)
£30.00
David's Bookshop Phenomena: US Government Investigations into ESP and Psychokinesis by Annie Jacobsen
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA by Annie Jacobsen
£12.99
David's Bookshop Operation Paperclip: Nazi Scientists in America by Annie Jacobsen
£12.99
David's Bookshop Nowhere Girl: Life as a Member of ADHD’s Lost Generation by Carla Ciccone
£18.99
David's Bookshop Two Women Living Together by Kim Hana & Hwang Sunwoo
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Hymn to Life: Shame has to Change Sides by Gisele Pelicot
£22.00
David's Bookshop How To Art by Kate Bryan (SIGNED) & TOTE BAG
£16.99
David's Bookshop Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (SIGNED)
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945 by N A M Rodger
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
£11.99
David's Bookshop A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts
£11.99
David's Bookshop Unleashed by Boris Johnson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Love in Exile by Shon Faye
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet by Keon West
£10.99
David's Bookshop Outrage: How To Fight for LGBTQ+ Lives by Ellen Jones
£10.99
David's Bookshop Iron Hope: Lessons Learned from Conquering the Impossible by James Lawrence
£12.99
David's Bookshop Three Wild Dogs (and the truth): A Memoir by Markus Zusak
£9.99
David's Bookshop Between Two Waters: Heritage, landscape and the modern cook by Pam Brunton
£10.99
