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 Augustus The Strong: A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco by Tim Blanning
£12.99
David's Bookshop Why Q Needs U: A history of our letters and how we use them by Danny Bate
£14.99
David's Bookshop Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present by Fareed Zakaria
£10.99
David's Bookshop Gaza: The Story of a Genocide
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Book of Kells: Unlocking the Enigma by Victoria Whitworth
£35.00
David's Bookshop Diaries of Note: 366 Lives, One Day at a Time by Shaun Usher
£25.00
David's Bookshop Fateful Hours: The Collapse of the Weimar Republic by Volker Ullrich
£25.00
David's Bookshop Rhineland: Hitler’s Last Defence, 1944–45 by Anthony Tucker-Jones
£25.00
David's Bookshop Rogues and Scholars: Boom and Bust in the London Art Market, 1945–2000 by James Stourton
£12.99
David's Bookshop No Safer Kinder Hatred: How Racial Hatred and Ethnic Violence Shaped Zimbabwe by Frank Thabani Sayi
£25.00
David's Bookshop Jane Austen's Bookshelf: The women writers who shaped a legend by Rebecca Romney
£12.99
David's Bookshop Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-Boat War 1939-45 by Roger Moorhouse
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Stuff of History: A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People by Steven Moore
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Two Hundred Years War: The Bloody Crowns of England and France, 1292–1492 by Dr Michael Livingston
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Scapegoat: The Brilliant Brief Life of the Duke of Buckingham by Lucy Hughes-Hallett
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mavericks: Empire, Oil, Revolution and the Forgotten Battle of World War One by Nick Higham
£22.00
David's Bookshop Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar by Max Hastings
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Library of Lost Maps by James Cheshire
£30.00
David's Bookshop 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Surgeon, The Midwife, The Quack: How to Stay Alive in Renaissance England by Dr.Alanna Skuse
£18.99
David's Bookshop True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen by Lance Richardson
£30.00
David's Bookshop We Survived the Night: An Indigenous Reckoning by Julian Brave NoiseCat
£20.00
David's Bookshop Once Upon a Time in Space by James Bluemel
£27.00
David's Bookshop Mortimer's A to Zs of English History
£25.00
David's Bookshop On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War by Jens Stoltenberg
£25.00
David's Bookshop This Way Up by Map Men
£16.99
David's Bookshop Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History by Oren Harman
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Rob the Bank of England: Keith Cheeseman Reveals the True Story of Britain’s Biggest Ever Robbery by Keith Cheeseman & Clifford Thurlow
£10.99
David's Bookshop A More Perfect Union: The Europe We Need by Marina Wheeler
£14.99
David's Bookshop Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure: Top Gear, Grand Tour, Clarkson and Me by Andy Wilman
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse by Frances Welch
£12.99
David's Bookshop El Generalisimo: Franco: Power, Violence and the Quest for Greatness by Giles Tremlett
£30.00
David's Bookshop For the Sun After Long Nights: The Story of Iran’s Women-led Uprising by Nilo Tabrizy & Fatemeh Jamalpour
£22.00
David's Bookshop Night Vision: In search of the true dark by Jean Sprackland
£18.99
David's Bookshop Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome's Imperial Women by Joan Smith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Putin and the Return of History: How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War by Martin Sixsmith
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich by Daniel Rachel
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Hitler Years: Holocaust 1933–1945 by Frank McDonough
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Last Days of Budapest: Spies, Nazis, Rescuers and Resistance, 1940–1945 by Adam LeBor
£12.99
David's Bookshop Every Valley: The Story of Handel’s Messiah by Charles King
£12.99
David's Bookshop Plebs Romana: People, Politics and Power in Ancient Rome by Peter Jones
£14.99
David's Bookshop Margaret Beaufort: Survivor, Rebel, Kingmaker by Lauren Johnson
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Bible: A Global History by Bruce Gordon
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Chapel of Westminster: How a Royal Chapel Became the House of Commons by John Cooper
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Taiwan Story: How a Small Island Will Dictate the Global Future by Kerry Brown
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Land Trap: A New History of the World's Oldest Asset by Mike Bird
£25.00
David's Bookshop Political Girl: Life and Fate in Russia by Maria Alyokhina
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Dark Side of the Earth: How the Soviet Union Collapsed but Remained by Mikhail Zygar
£30.00
