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 Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History
£50.00 £45.00
David's Bookshop Moral AI: And How We Get There by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Vincent Conitzer
£10.99
David's Bookshop This is For Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive in Difficult Times by Kari Leibowitz
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Best of Matt 2025
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Little Book of HRT: Your essential guide to hormones and menopause by Dr Ellie Cannon
£9.99
David's Bookshop Ancestral Magic: A Modern Witch’s Guide to Folk Traditions & Reconnection by Frankie Castanea
£16.99
David's Bookshop We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir by Sir Anthony Hopkins
£25.00
David's Bookshop Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
£28.00 £25.20
David's Bookshop Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
£22.00
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David's Bookshop The Rebel Romanov by Helen Rappaport
£12.99
David's Bookshop War by Bob Woodward
£12.99
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David's Bookshop Lateral Cooking by Niki Segnit
£25.00 £22.50
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David's Bookshop The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Devil's Best Trick by Randall Sullivan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches by Carol Ann Lee
£10.99
David's Bookshop America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir
£12.99
David's Bookshop Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of Civilisation by Tim Queeney
£20.00
David's Bookshop Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency by David Goldblatt
£22.00
David's Bookshop Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Bronwen Everill
£10.99
David's Bookshop Blame Not the Wind: A Tragedy at Sea. a Cover-Up. One Mother’s Search for Justice. by Shirley Cooklin
£22.00
David's Bookshop Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
£12.99
David's Bookshop Dangerous Miracle: A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them by Liam Shaw
£25.00
David's Bookshop Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang
£25.00
David's Bookshop Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe by Robert Winder
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle by Richard Vinen
£25.00
David's Bookshop Domination by Alice Roberts
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of the Gaza Strip by Anne Irfan
£18.99
David's Bookshop Charles III: The Inside Story by Robert Hardman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mother State: A Political History of Motherhood by Helen Charma
£14.99
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David's Bookshop From Billions in Debt to Trillions in Trade by Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Searching for My Slave Roots by Malik Al Nasir
£22.00
David's Bookshop Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi
£20.00
David's Bookshop Witches: A King's Obsession by Steven Veerapen
£20.00
David's Bookshop Kingmaker: Pamela Churchill Harriman's astonishing life of seduction, intrigue and power by Sonia Purnell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Peacemaker: U Thant, the United Nations and the Untold Story of the 1960s by Thant Myint-U
£22.00
David's Bookshop Between the Waves: The Hidden History of a Very British Revolution 1945-2016 by Tom McTague
£25.00
David's Bookshop No Road Leading Back: An Improbable Escape from the Nazis by Chris Heath
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Short History of Japan by Christopher Harding
£20.00
David's Bookshop Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Revelation of Ireland: 1995-2020 by Diarmaid Ferriter
£12.99
David's Bookshop Queer Georgians: A hidden history of lovers, lawbreakers and homemakers by Anthony Delaney
£22.00
David's Bookshop Deadwood: Gold, Guns and Greed in the American West by Peter Cozzens
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Scandal in Konigsberg by Christopher Clark
£22.00
David's Bookshop Ghosted: A History of Ghost Hunting, and Why We Keep Looking by Alice Vernon
£20.00