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 Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop We Came by Sea: Stories of a greater Britain by Horatio Clare
£10.00
David's Bookshop Myths of Geography: Eight Ways We Get the World Wrong by Paul Richardson
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Power of Geography: Ten Maps That Reveal the Future of Our World by Tim Marshall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Listen to the Land Speak: A Journey into the wisdom of what lies beneath us by Manchan Magan
£21.99
David's Bookshop Ninety-Nine Words for Rain (and One for Sun) by Manchan Magan
£21.99
David's Bookshop Thirty-Two Words for Field: Lost Words of the Irish Landscape by Manchan Magan
£16.99
David's Bookshop Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World by Tom Chivers (
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Future of Geography: How Power and Politics in Space Will Change Our World by Tim Marshall
£10.99
David's Bookshop In Search Of Schrodinger's Cat: Updated Edition by John Gribbin
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Coming Wave: AI, Power and Our Future by Mustafa Suleyman & Michael Bhaskar
£10.99
David's Bookshop Goliath’s Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse by Luke Kemp
£25.00
David's Bookshop Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future by Ed Conway
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Is Why You Dream: What your sleeping brain reveals about your waking life by Rahul Jandial
£10.99
David's Bookshop Black Holes: The Key to Understanding the Universe by Professor Brian Cox & Professor Jeff Forshaw
£10.99
David's Bookshop For the Love of Trains: Celebrating 200 Years of British Railways by Paul Routledge
£12.99
David's Bookshop Why We Die: The New Science of Longevity by Venki Ramakrishnan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Why Nobody Understands Quantum Physics: The Story of the Science That Shapes Our World by Frank Verstraete & Celine Broeckaert
£22.00
David's Bookshop Less: Stop Buying So Much Rubbish: How Having Fewer, Better Things Can Make Us Happier by Patrick Grant
£10.99
David's Bookshop Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Waterbearer: A Memoir of Mothers and Daughters by Sasha Bonet
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop The Leopard in my House: One man’s adventures in cancerland by Mark Steel
£12.99
David's Bookshop Runnin' Down a Dream by Bill Gurley
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Why We Suffer and How We Heal: The Three Keys to Flourishing Through Life's Challenges by Dr Suzan Song
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Cry When the Baby Cries by Becky Barnicoat
£12.99
David's Bookshop Ripples on the Cosmic Ocean: How The Solar System Shaped Human History – And May Help Save Our Planet by Dr Dagomar Degroot
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop William & Catherine: The Intimate Inside Story by Russell Myers
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Prosecutor: One Man’s Battle to Bring Nazis to Justice by Jack Fairweather
£10.99
David's Bookshop Winter's Song by Angela Harding
£12.99
David's Bookshop Winter: Five Windows on the Season by Adam Gopnik
£12.99
David's Bookshop Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire & Gabriel Pogrund
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection by Dr John Schwartz Gottman & Dr Julie Schwartz Gottman
£11.99
David's Bookshop If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: The Case Against Superintelligent AI by Eliezer Yudkowsky & Nate Soares
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Penguin Book of Penguins: An Expert’s Guide to the World’s Most Beloved Bird by Peter Fretwell & Lisa Fretwell
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Case Against Reality: How Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes by Donald D. Hoffman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
£10.99
David's Bookshop Said the Dead by Doireann Ni Ghriofa
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop One Hand Clapping: Unravelling the mystery of the human mind by Nikolay Kukushkin
£22.00
David's Bookshop Ernest Rutherford and the Birth of Modern Physics by Matthew Wright
£20.00
David's Bookshop Mortal Secrets: Freud, Vienna and the Discovery of the Modern Mind by Frank Tallis
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Act of Living: What the Great Psychologists Can Teach Us About Surviving Discontent in an Age of Anxiety by Frank Tallis
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
£12.99
David's Bookshop The History of Philosophy by A.C. Grayling
£14.99
David's Bookshop For The People: Fighting Authoritarianism, Saving Democracy by A.C. Grayling
£12.99
