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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Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop The Complete Book of Volkswagen GTI: Every Model Since 1976 by Russell Hayes
£38.00
David's Bookshop The Season: A Fan’s Story by Helen Garner
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Steps by Sylvester Stallone
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
£13.99
David's Bookshop Beyond the Line: My Life in Rugby by Ben Youngs
£25.00
David's Bookshop Test Match Special: How to Read Cricket: Everything you need to know about the greatest game in the world by Ebony Rainford-Brent
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Racket: On Tour with Tennis’s Golden Generation – and the other 99% by Conor Niland
£10.99
David's Bookshop Chasing Jessop: The Mystery of England Cricket's Oldest Record by Simon Wilde
£22.00
David's Bookshop Baddest Man: The making of Mike Tyson by Mark Kriegal
£25.00
David's Bookshop Fallen: Everest and the Enigma of George Mallory by Mick Conefrey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Two Lights: Walking at Dawn and Dusk on a Turning Planet by James Roberts
£10.99
David's Bookshop Letters From Everest: Unpublished Letters from Mallory’s Life and Death in the Mountains by George Mallory
£10.99
David's Bookshop BIG DUNC: The Upfront Autobiography by Duncan Ferguson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Road Captain: My Life at the Heart of the Peloton by Luke Rowe
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Forever Forward: The inside story of McLaren Formula 1 by Ben Hunt
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Escape: The Tour, the Cyclist and Me by David Walsh & Pippa York
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Accidental Tour-ist: (Final) Dispatches from the Road by Ned Boulting
£20.00
David's Bookshop Unbroken: The inspirational memoir from the double-world champion and Olympic silver medallist by Katarina Johnson-Thompson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Cloud Nine: My Life In Rugby by Conor Murray
£22.00
David's Bookshop F1 Insider: Notes from the Pit Lane by Ted Kravitz
£22.00
David's Bookshop Old Parish: Notes on Hurling by Ciaran Murphy
£16.99
David's Bookshop Heartbeats: A Memoir by Bjorn Borg
£25.00
David's Bookshop Unlocked by Eben Etzebeth
£25.00
David's Bookshop Sacrifice: A Year in the Life of a Champion Jockey by Oisin Murphy
£22.00
David's Bookshop 500 Declared: The Joys of Covering 500 Cricket Tests by Scyld Berry
£22.00
David's Bookshop Driven: The Inspirational Memoir from Formula One Trailblazer and Managing Director of F1 Academy Susie Wolff - As Seen on Netflix by Susie Wolff
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Chain by Sir Bradley Wiggins
£22.00
David's Bookshop Whatever will be, will be: A Matter of Life and Football by Felix White
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Ashes Files: My Pride and Pain in Cricket’s Most Intense Series by Steven Finn
£25.00
David's Bookshop Joe Cole, Luxury Player: The long-awaited memoir from the England, Chelsea and West Ham legend by Joe Cole
£25.00
David's Bookshop Chasing Salah: The Biography by Simon Hughes
£12.99
David's Bookshop Arne Slot: The New Era: The Definitive Biography of Liverpool’s New Hero by Mikos Gouka
£22.00
David's Bookshop Golf Wars: LIV and Golf's Bitter Battle for Power and Identity by Iain Carter
£12.99
David's Bookshop Being Carlos Alcaraz: The Man Behind the Smile by Mark Hodgkinson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Changeover: A Young Rivalry and a New Era of Men's Tennis by Giri Nathan
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Football Battalions: The Elite Footballers Who Fought in the Great War by Christopher Evans
£20.00
David's Bookshop Walk On: How Arne Slot LED Liverpool to Premier League Glory by James Pearce
£20.00
David's Bookshop Bring on United: Ferguson’s Golden Generation in Their Own Words by Andy Mitten
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Good, the Bad & the Rugby – Unlocked by James Haskell, Mike Tindall & Alex Payne
£22.00
David's Bookshop Manchester United After Munich by Wayne Barton
£20.00
David's Bookshop Sir Lewis: The Definitive Biography by Michael E. Sawyer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Run Britain: My World Record-Breaking Adventure to Run Every Mile of the British Coastline by Nick Butter
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Cricket by Sir Trevor McDonald
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mind over Miles: A Story of Endurance Running, Overcoming Obstacles and Finding Inner Peace by Russ Cook
£10.99
David's Bookshop Jimmy Anderson: Finding the Edge: The Autobiography by Jimmy Anderson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Utilita Football Yearbook 2025-2026
£35.00
