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 What It Takes: My Playbook on Life and Leadership by Sarina Wiegman
£10.99
David's Bookshop SI SENOR: My Liverpool Years by Roberto Firmino
£10.99
David's Bookshop Born to be a Footballer: My Autobiography: Shortlisted for the Eason Sports Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards by Liam Brady
£10.99
David's Bookshop The World's Biggest Cash Machine: Manchester United, the Glazers, and the Struggle for Football's Soul by Chris Blackhurst
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cast Catch Release: The inspiring and uplifting memoir about fishing, rivers and the power of water by Marina Gibson (PRE-ORDER)
£10.99
David's Bookshop Great Rides According to G by Geraint Thomas
£12.99
David's Bookshop On the Ashes by Gideon Haigh
£12.99
David's Bookshop Tuffers' Ashes Heroes: Legends and Characters from Both Sides of Cricket's Divide by Phil Tufnell
£22.00
David's Bookshop Champion Thinking: Get Out of Your Own Way, Find Your Peak Performance by Simon Mundie
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Fan for All Seasons: A Journey Through Life and Sport by Jon Harvey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Joe Friel’s High-Performance Cyclist: The Complete Training Manual by Joe Friel
£22.00
David's Bookshop Richie Benaud’s Blue Suede Shoes: The Story of an Ashes Classic by David Kynaston
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Changing Game: The Past, Present and Future of Football by Martin O'Neill (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop SAS The Great Train Raid: The Most Daring SAS Mission of WWII by Damien Lewis (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Pub For All Seasons: A Yearlong Journey in Search of the Perfect British Local by Adrian Tierney-Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders by Rory Stewart (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Semi-Well-Adjusted Despite Literally Everything: A Memoir by Alyson Stoner
£22.00
David's Bookshop Dorothy Parker in Hollywood by Gail Crowther
£10.99
David's Bookshop I Put a Spell on You by John Burnside
£10.99
David's Bookshop Waking Up in Toytown: A Memoir by John Burnside
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Lie About My Father by John Burnside
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Mirror of Great Britain: A Life of James VI & I by Clare Jackson
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Japanese Way of Whisky: Japan’s whiskies and how to enjoy them by Dave Broom
£25.00
David's Bookshop Kitchen Confidential: 25th Anniversary Edition by Anthony Bourdain
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Royal Mint Puzzle Book: 125 Rewarding Puzzles for All the Family
£16.99
David's Bookshop Petroc Trelawny's Classical Music Puzzle Book: A world of music brought to life in eighty works, puzzles and conundrums
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Spectator's Best of Notes On...: From Kippers to Jeans and everything in between by William Moore
£12.99
David's Bookshop Private Eye Annual 2025
£12.99 £10.99
David's Bookshop Eleanor: A 200-mile Walk in Search of England's Lost Queen by Alice Loxton
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Complicated Woman: The hotly anticipated literary debut by Rebecca Lucy Taylor
£22.00
David's Bookshop Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Traitors Circle: The Rebels Against the Nazis and the Spy Who Betrayed Them by Jonathan Freedland
£25.00
David's Bookshop Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Stolen Crown: Treachery, Deceit and the Death of the Tudor Dynasty by Tracy Borman
£26.00
David's Bookshop Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland by Peter Ross (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Schott’s Significa: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language by Ben Schott
£22.00
David's Bookshop Sonny Boy: A Memoir by Al Pacino
£10.99
David's Bookshop Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm by Charlie Mackesy
£22.00
David's Bookshop Vagabond by Tim Curry
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Gifts of Winter by Dr Stephanie Fitzgerald
£16.99
David's Bookshop Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Only Way I Know: The Autobiography by Andy Farrell
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of Nearly Everything 2.0 by Bill Bryson
£25.00
