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 Apocalypse: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures by Lizzie Wade
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Mad and the Brave: The Untold Story of Ukraine’s Foreign Legion by Colin Freeman
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko Kakutani
£9.99
David's Bookshop Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent by Iain Pears
£18.99
David's Bookshop Sluts: The truth about sex shame and what we can do to fight it by Beth Ashley
£9.99
David's Bookshop 10 Mistakes That Changed History: The Reckless Rulers, Monumental Mishaps and Disastrous Decisions That Have Shaped Our World. by Paul Coulter
£20.00
David's Bookshop Forgotten Forests: Twelve Thousand Years of British and Irish Woodlands by Jonathan Mullard
£22.00
David's Bookshop Izabela the Valiant: The Story of an Indomitable Polish Princess by Adam Zamoyski
£10.99
David's Bookshop No Escape: The True Story of China’s Genocide of the Uyghurs by Nury Turkel
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed by Maureen Callahan
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Land of Promise: A History of Refugees and Exiles in Britain by Matthew Lockwood
£12.99
David's Bookshop Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers by Benjamin Wardhaugh
£12.99
David's Bookshop History in the House: Some Remarkable Dons and the Teaching of Politics, Character and Statecraft by Richard Davenport-Hines
£12.99
David's Bookshop Crunch: The History of Crisps by Natalie Whittle
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hercules by Scott Bateman
£10.99
David's Bookshop American Heroes by James Patterson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Outcast: A History of Leprosy, Humanity and the Modern World by Oliver Basciano
£20.00
David's Bookshop Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle by Max Hastings
£25.00
David's Bookshop Pup Fiction: An epic journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog
£16.99
David's Bookshop Cello: A Journey Through Silence to Sound by Kate Kennedy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Boy From the Valleys: My unexpected journey by Luke Evans
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Tremolo Diaries: Life on the Road and Other Diseases by Justin Currie
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Fine Line between Stupid and Clever: The Story of Spinal Tap by Rob Reiner
£25.00
David's Bookshop Both Sides Now: Laughter, Grief and Everything in Between with Johnnie Walker by Tiggy Walker
£20.00
David's Bookshop Lyrical Diary: Lieder from Franz Schubert to Wolfgang Rihm by Christian Gerhaher
£25.00
David's Bookshop Annie Lennox: Retrospective by Annie Lennox
£50.00
David's Bookshop Oasis: Trying to find a way out of nowhere by Jill Furmanovsky & Noel Gallagher
£50.00
David's Bookshop We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me by Elliot Mintz
£10.99
David's Bookshop Up in the Air: A History of High Rise Britain by Holly Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop Atomic Albion: Journeys Around Britain’s Nuclear Power Stations by Tom Bolton
£21.00 £19.99
David's Bookshop The Years of the Wizard: The Strange History and Home Life of Renaissance Magicians by Rachel Morris
£20.00
David's Bookshop To the Sea by Train: The Golden Age of Railway Travel by Andrew Martin
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Anime Archives by Lost in Cult
£35.00
David's Bookshop My Name is Barbra by Barbra Streisand
£18.99
David's Bookshop Scream with Me: Horror Films and the Rise of American Feminism (1968-1980) by Eleanor Johnson
£20.00
David's Bookshop Scorsese on Filmmaking and Faith by Martin Scorsese & Antonio Spadaro
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Rolling Year: Listening to the Seasons with Vivaldi by Dr Hannah French
£20.00
David's Bookshop Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat by Joe Shute
£11.99
David's Bookshop Over the Rainbow: Tales from an Unexpected Year by Alex James
£10.99
David's Bookshop Planting for a Year of Flowers: Grow Your Garden Through the Year by Jane Moore
£18.00
David's Bookshop Full Gas Forever: A 40+ Cyclist's Guide to Riding Faster and Further by Ed Clancy & Lexie Williamson
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup by Jonathan Wilson
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Way of the Waves: A cycling odyssey to rediscover the soul of European surfing by Martin Dorey
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Dream: Breaking Champions League Records by Carlo Ancelotti
£22.00
David's Bookshop World Cup Fever: A Footballing Journey in Nine Tournaments by Simon Kuper
£20.00
David's Bookshop World Football Records 2026 by Keir Radnedge
£20.00
David's Bookshop Freddie Flintoff: Autobiography by Andrew Flintoff
£22.00
David's Bookshop Pitlane Lessons: What F1 Can Teach You About Life and Work by Marc 'Elvis' Priestley
£20.00
