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 Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby
£12.99
David's Bookshop Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change — in 50 Questions and Answers by Hannah Ritchie
£20.00
David's Bookshop Love Triangle: The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry by Matt Parker
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife by Tim Birkhead
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Great Nerve: The New Science of the Vagus Nerve by Dr Kevin Tracey
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Expectation Effect: How Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life by David Robson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships by Nathan H. Lents
£10.99
David's Bookshop Quantum Theory Cannot Hurt You: Understanding the Mind-Blowing Building Blocks of the Universe by Marcus Chown
£10.99
David's Bookshop The One Thing You Need to Know: The Simple Way to Understand the Most Important Ideas in Science by Marcus Chown
£10.99
David's Bookshop Unequal: The Maths of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up by Eugenia Cheng
£12.99
David's Bookshop Going Nuclear: How the Atom Will Save the Planet by Tim Gregory
£12.99
David's Bookshop Explaining Humans: What Science Can Teach Us About Life, Love and Relationships by Camilla Pang
£10.99
David's Bookshop Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural by Ben Machell
£12.99
David's Bookshop Why We Eat (Too Much): The New Science of Appetite by Dr Andrew Jenkinson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant
£12.99
David's Bookshop On the Equality of All Things by Carlo Rovelli
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop When the Forest Breathes: Renewal and Resilience in the Natural World by Suzanne Simard
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too by David Sumpter
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Long History of the Future: Why tomorrow's technology still isn't here by Nicole Kobie
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Singularity is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil
£12.99
David's Bookshop The God Equation: The Quest for a Theory of Everything by Michio Kaku
£10.99
David's Bookshop Starwatchers: A History of Discovery in the Night Sky by Joanne Baker
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Greatest Story Ever Told...So Far by Lawrence M. Krauss
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M. Krauss
£9.99
David's Bookshop A Universe From Nothing by Lawrence M. Krauss
£9.99
David's Bookshop Reaching for the Extreme: How the Quest for the Biggest, Fewest and Weirdest Makes Maths by Professor Ian Stewart
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Landsmart: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Countryside by Tom Heap
£10.99
David's Bookshop Our Brains, Our Selves: What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain by Masud Husain
£10.99
David's Bookshop Empire of AI: Inside the reckless race for total domination by Karen Hao
£12.99
David's Bookshop Proof: The Uncertain Science of Certainty by Adam Kucharski
£11.99
David's Bookshop RHS Plants Can Save Your Life: How to live healthier and happier with plants by Ross Cameron
£16.99 £15.00
David's Bookshop The Pressed Flower Handbook: Simple Methods for Connecting with Nature and Preserving the Beauty of the Garden through the Seasons - Grow, Gather, Press, Create by Sarah Holland
£19.99 £16.00
David's Bookshop Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests by Charles Dowding
£14.99 £10.00
David's Bookshop Righting Wrongs by Kenneth Roth
£14.99 £13.49
David's Bookshop It's On You by Nick Chater & George Loewenstein
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Imitation Games: How the Gambling Industry Hijacked Sport by Darragh McGee
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Medal Man by Mark Smith
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Idaho Murders by James Patterson
£10.99 £9.89
David's Bookshop Story of a Murder by Hallie Rubenhold
£10.99 £9.89
David's Bookshop Chinese and Any Other Asian by Anna Sulan Masing
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop The Only Cure: Freud and the Neuroscience of Mental Healing by Mark Solms
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America by Michael Wolff
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Rough Patch: How a Year in the Garden Brought Me Back to Life by Kathy Slack
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop The Female Body in Art by Amy Dempsey
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Still: A Mindful Practice for Photographers by Paul Sanders
£20.00 £18.00
