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 I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Orwell’s Ghosts: Wisdom and Warnings for the 21st Century by Laura Beers
£14.99
David's Bookshop Chasing Fog by Laura Pashby
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks from the Enlightenment to the Present by Oswyn Murray
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Green Budget Guide: 101 Planet and Money Saving Tips, Ideas and Recipes by Nancy Birtwhistle
£10.99
David's Bookshop Adventures in Fermentation: From Ancient Origins to Culinary Frontiers, an Exploration of the Microbes That Shape the World We Live In by Dr Johnny Drain
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Super Nintendo: How One Japanese Company Helped the World Have Fun by Keza MacDonald
£20.00
David's Bookshop Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Art of Spending Money: Simple Choices for a Richer Life by Morgan Housel
£16.99
David's Bookshop Last Rites: Never-before-told stories of a legendary life from the much-missed icon by Ozzy Osbourne
£25.00
David's Bookshop Thirst: The Twelve Drinks That Changed My Life by John Robins
£20.00
David's Bookshop Hexy Witch: Spooky Tales From My Weird Life by Daisy May Cooper
£10.99
David's Bookshop Raising Hare: The heart-warming true story of an unlikely friendship by Chloe Dalton
£10.99
David's Bookshop No Other Place: My Autobiography by George North
£22.00
David's Bookshop Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire: The Authorised Oral History by Dan Jennings
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Economist Quiz Book: 60 Brain Teasers for Inquisitive Minds by Tom Standage
£10.99
David's Bookshop Merry Murdle: 25 Fiendishly Festive Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles by G.T. Karber
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wisdom Takes Work: Learn. Apply. Repeat. by Ryan Holiday
£15.99
David's Bookshop A Short History of Queer Parenting by Kirsty Loehr
£8.99
David's Bookshop The Genius Bat: Understanding Our Most Mysterious Mammal by Yossi Yovel
£20.00
David's Bookshop A History of the Occult Tarot: The classic work on secret societies and their mysterious Tarots by Ronald Decker & Sir Michael Dummett
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Path of Light: Walking to Auschwitz by Anthony Seldon
£20.00
David's Bookshop I Shop, Therefore I Am: The '90s, Harvey Nicks – and Me by Mary Portas (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop On Friendship by Andrew O'Hagan (INDIE EDITION)
£12.99
David's Bookshop Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios Won't Open – Wisdom for the Unreflective by Richard Ayoade (SIGNED)
£10.00
David's Bookshop Who Will Tell My Story?: A Gaza Diary by Anonymous
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Gates of Gaza: A Story of Betrayal, Survival, and Hope in Israel’s Borderlands by Amir Tibon
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Taoiseach: A Century of Political Leadership by Iain Dale
£20.00
David's Bookshop Atlantic Furies: The Women Who Risked Everything to be the First to Fly by Midge Gillies
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality by William Egginton
£12.99
David's Bookshop Famesick by Lena Dunham
£18.99 £17.10
David's Bookshop The Hour of the Predator: Encounters with the Autocrats and Tech Billionaires Taking Over the World by Giuliano da Empoli
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas by Sarah Clegg
£10.99
David's Bookshop Every Last Fish: What Fish Do for Us and What We Do to Them by Rose George
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Book of Memory: Or, How to Live Forever by Mark Rowlands
£14.99
David's Bookshop After Oscar: The Legacy of a Scandal by Merlin Holland
£30.00
David's Bookshop Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld
£16.99
David's Bookshop I Shop, Therefore I Am: The '90s, Harvey Nicks – and Me by Mary Portas
£20.00
David's Bookshop Aqua: A Story of Water and Lost Dreams by Chiara Barzini
£16.99
David's Bookshop Green Crime: Inside the Minds of the People Destroying the Planet, and How to Stop Them by Dr Julia Shaw
£18.99
David's Bookshop A Year of Living Curiously: 365 Things Really Worth Knowing by Beth Coates & Elizabeth Foley
£10.99
David's Bookshop Enchantment: Reconnecting in an Anxious Age by Katherine May
£10.99
David's Bookshop Four Questions About Violence: Insights from a Forensic Psychiatrist by Gwen Adshead
£9.99
David's Bookshop National Trust - Britain's Folklore Year
£12.99
David's Bookshop Menolicious: Eat Your Way to a Better Menopause by Mariella Frostrup & Belles Berry
£22.00
