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 Hiroshima: The extraordinary stories of the last survivors of the atomic bomb who can still recall the day the world changed forever by M.G. Sheftall
£14.99
David's Bookshop Upon a White Horse: Journeys in Ancient Britain and Ireland by Peter Ross
£22.00
David's Bookshop Dark Squares: A cult leader, a child prodigy and the chess revolution by Daniel Rensch
£20.00
David's Bookshop Food Intelligence: The Science of How Food Both Nourishes and Harms Us by Kevin Hall & Julia Belluz
£22.00
David's Bookshop Future Boy: Back to the Future and My Journey through the Space-Time Continuum by Michael J Fox
£22.00
David's Bookshop We Have Ways of Making You Talk: World in Peril: New Histories of World War Two
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and the Missing Revolution by Vincent Bevins
£14.99
David's Bookshop Poems & Prayers by Matthew McConaughey
£20.00
David's Bookshop Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music by Greil Marcus
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Chronicles of DOOM: Unravelling Rap's Masked Iconoclast by S.H. Fernando Jr.
£16.99
David's Bookshop Feeding the Monster: Why horror has a hold on us by Anna Bogutskaya
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Friendship by Andrew O'Hagan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Shadowplayers: The Rise and Fall of Factory Records by James Nice
£16.99
David's Bookshop 89 Words followed by Prague, A Disappearing Poem by Milan Kundera
£12.99
David's Bookshop Afterthoughts: or Some Pistachios Won't Open – Wisdom for the Unreflective by Richard Ayoade
£10.00
David's Bookshop Portrait of an Island on Fire by Ariel Saramandi
£14.99
David's Bookshop Greyhound by Joanna Pocock
£14.99
David's Bookshop Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreev by Maxim Gorky
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Other Girl by Annie Ernaux
£8.99
David's Bookshop The Tower by Thea Lenarduzzi
£14.99
David's Bookshop The History of Sexuality: 1: The Will to Knowledge by Michel Foucault
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday
£9.99
David's Bookshop Chernobyl Prayer: Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexievich
£9.99
David's Bookshop Akenfield by Ronald Blythe
£9.99
David's Bookshop Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Storm of Steel by Ernst Junger
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Periodic Table by Primo Levi
£8.99
David's Bookshop Design as Art by Bruno Munari
£9.99
David's Bookshop Finding My Way by Malala Yousafzai (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Anthony Bourdain Reader: New, Classic and Rediscovered Writing by Anthony Bourdain
£25.00
David's Bookshop Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science by Werner Heisenberg
£10.99
David's Bookshop Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt
£10.99
David's Bookshop Watermark: An Essay on Venice by Joseph Brodsky
£9.99
David's Bookshop Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
£8.99
David's Bookshop Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
£9.99
David's Bookshop On Photography by Susan Sontag
£9.99
David's Bookshop Women, Race & Class by Angela Y. Davis
£9.99
David's Bookshop Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
£9.99
David's Bookshop Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire
£9.99
David's Bookshop Hack Yourself Healthy: Reclaim your health to boost your energy, clear your mind and live a long, vibrant life by Julia Bradbury (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Last Secret Agent: The Extraordinary Story of a WW2 Spy in Her Own Words by Pippa Latour
£10.99
David's Bookshop Money: A Story of Humanity by David McWilliams
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Woman Like Me: A Memoir by Diane Abbott
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Rest is History Returns: An A–Z of Historical Curiosities by Dominic Sandbrook & Tom Holland
£10.99
