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 Genetic Book of the Dead: A Darwinian Reverie by Richard Dawkins
£14.99
David's Bookshop Prose & Cons: The English Language in Just A Minute by Gyles Brandreth
£10.99
David's Bookshop Didion & Babitz: A Belletrist Book Club pick by Lili Anolik
£10.99
David's Bookshop Eighteen: A History of Britain in 18 Young Lives by Alice Loxton
£10.99
David's Bookshop Endgame 1944: How Stalin Won The War by Jonathan Dimbleby
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Wide Wide Sea by Hampton Sides
£10.99
David's Bookshop Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Professor Peter Sarris
£14.99
David's Bookshop Populus: Living and Dying in the Wealth, Smoke and Din of Ancient Rome by Guy de la Bedoyere
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Children of Athena: Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome, 150 BC–AD 400 by Charles Freeman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hedgelands: A wild wander around Britain’s greatest habitat by Christopher Hart
£12.99
David's Bookshop Turning to Stone by Marcia Bjornerud
£14.99
David's Bookshop Bread of Angels by Patti Smith
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator by Theodore Papakostas
£10.99
David's Bookshop Let's Be Honest by Jess Phillips
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ingrained: The making of a craftsman by Callum Robinson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Secret Life of the Universe: An Astrobiologist's Search for the Origins and Frontiers of Life by Nathalie A. Cabrol
£10.99
David's Bookshop Powsels and Thrums by Alan Garner
£9.99
David's Bookshop American Mother by Colum McCann & Diane Foley
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ghosts of the British Museum: A True Story of Colonial Loot and Restless Objects by Noah Angell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Underground Sea by John Berger
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book Forger: The true story of a literary crime that fooled the world by Joseph Hone
£10.99
David's Bookshop A History of the World in 47 Borders by Jonn Elledge
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Reflection: Looking for Life's Meaning by Richard Holloway
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wise Women: Myths and stories for midlife and beyond by Sharon Blackie & Angharad Wynne
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Greatest Nobodies of History: Minor Characters from Major Moments by Adrian Bliss
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Umbrella Murder: The Hunt for the Notorious Cold War Killer by Ulrik Skotte
£10.99
David's Bookshop Failed State: Why Britain Doesn't Work and How We Fix It by Sam Freedman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labour Powering AI by James Muldoon, Mark Graham & Callum Cant
£10.99
David's Bookshop Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
£14.99
David's Bookshop Anima: A Wild Pastoral by Kapka Kassabova
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Striker and the Clock by Georgia Cloepfil
£9.99
David's Bookshop All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil by Stephen Alford
£12.99
David's Bookshop Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us by Lucy Foulkes
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lasting Harm: Witnessing the Trial of Ghislaine Maxwell by Lucia Osborne-Crowley
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Cove: A Cornish Haunting by Beth Lynch
£10.99
David's Bookshop Splinters: A Memoir by Leslie Jamison
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Flock: Rare Wool, Wild Isles and One Woman’s Journey to Save Scotland’s Original Sheep by Jane Cooper
£12.99
David's Bookshop Holding the Line: A true story of female-led resilience from the bestselling author of Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sailing Alone: A History by Richard J. King
£12.99
David's Bookshop A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks by David Gibbins
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tracks on the Ocean: A History of Trailblazing, Maps and Maritime Travel by Dr Sara Caputo
£12.99
David's Bookshop Ocean: A History of the Atlantic Before Columbus by John Haywood
£14.99
David's Bookshop Four Points of the Compass: The Unexpected History of Direction by Jerry Brotton
£10.99
David's Bookshop The High Seas: Ambition, Power and Greed on the Unclaimed Ocean by Olive Heffernan
£11.99
David's Bookshop This Earthly Globe by Andrea di Robilant
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Vast Extent: On Seeing and Not Seeing Further by Lavinia Greenlaw
£10.99
David's Bookshop Haywire: A Political History of Britain since 2000 by Andrew Hindmoor
£16.99
David's Bookshop Queen Catherine’s Court: Power and Rebellion in Restoration England by Sophie Shorland
£12.99
