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 Britain's Best Political Cartoons 2025 by Tim Benson
£17.99
David's Bookshop Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham Dixon
£30.00
David's Bookshop Ancient Myths and Legends Without Men by Mara Gold
£22.00
David's Bookshop Believe: Achieving the Impossible by Mark Cavendish
£22.00
David's Bookshop Portals to a New Reality: Five Experiments to Unlock the Future of Physics by Vlatko Vedral
£25.00
David's Bookshop Miriam: Life, Work, Everything by Miriam O'Callaghan
£25.00
David's Bookshop Reincarnation by Thich Nhat Hanh
£8.99
David's Bookshop Murdoku by M. Garand
£16.99
David's Bookshop I Deliver Parcels in Beijing: On Making a Living by Hu Anyan
£20.00
David's Bookshop Attention: Writing on Life, Art and The World by Anne Enright
£20.00
David's Bookshop Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders by Rory Stewart
£22.00
David's Bookshop Tigers Between Empires: The Journey to Save the Siberian Tiger from Extinction by Jonathan C. Slaght
£30.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of America: From Tea Party to Trump by Simon Jenkins
£25.00
David's Bookshop Look Closer: How to Get More Out of Reading by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Life in Letters by John Updike
£40.00
David's Bookshop Rick Stein's Christmas: Recipes, Memories & Stories for the Festive Season by Rick Stein
£28.00
David's Bookshop Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths that Shaped Europe by Janina Ramirez
£25.00
David's Bookshop The English House: A History in Eight Buildings by Dan Cruickshank
£25.00
David's Bookshop Mexico: A History by Paul Gillingham
£45.00
David's Bookshop A History of the World in 50 Pieces by Tom Service
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Slicks: On Sylvia Plath and Taylor Swift by Maggie Nelson
£9.99
David's Bookshop One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson
£18.99
David's Bookshop Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today: (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis) by Naomi Alderman
£16.99
David's Bookshop What Have I Done?: My Autobiography by Ben Elton
£25.00
David's Bookshop You Didn't Hear This From Me: Notes on the Art of Gossip by Kelsey McKinney
£10.99
David's Bookshop Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History by Tharik Hussain
£25.00
David's Bookshop Dianarama: Deception, Entrapment, Cover-up: The Betrayal of Princess Diana by Andy Webb
£22.00
David's Bookshop Create Repeat: 365 Days of Creativity by Zack Evans & Morgan Evans
£18.99
David's Bookshop I Decided to Live as Me: How to Stop Comparing Yourself to Others So You Can Learn to Love Yourself by Kim Suhyun
£10.99
David's Bookshop Quantum 2.0: The Past, Present, and Future of Quantum Physics by Paul Davies
£20.00
David's Bookshop How to Go (and Stay) Vegan by Ed Winters
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop A Life and a Half: The Unexpected Making of a Politician by Chris Bryant (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Far Above The World: The Time and Space of David Bowie by Paul Morley
£25.00
David's Bookshop Our Secrets Are The Same: Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple Minds by Charlie Burchill, Graeme Thomson & Jim Kerr (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Ferdinand Bauer's Remarkable Birds by Jonathan Elphick
£50.00
David's Bookshop Swoop Sing Perch Paddle: Birds by Carry Akroyd by Carry Akroyd & John McEwen
£14.99
David's Bookshop Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change by Friederike Otto
£22.00
David's Bookshop One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate by Kate Bradbury
£18.99
David's Bookshop Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water by Alys Fowler
£20.00
David's Bookshop Red Pockets: An Offering by Alice Mah
£20.00
David's Bookshop To Have or To Hold: Nature's Hidden Relationships by Sophie Pavelle
£20.00
David's Bookshop Nature Boy: A journey of birdsong and belonging by Sean Ronayne
£22.99
David's Bookshop Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Company of Owls by Polly Atkin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Possibility of Tenderness: A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams by Jason Allen-Paisant
£18.99
