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 We Will Not Be Saved: A memoir of hope and resistance in the Amazon rainforest by Nemonte Nenquimo & Mitch Anderson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Wimbledon: A personal history by Sue Barker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Dead Weight: On Hunger, Harm and Disordered Eating by Emmeline Clein
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Secret Public: A Queer History of Pop by Jon Savage
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Place of Our Own: Six Spaces That Shaped Queer Women's Culture by June Thomas
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Piano Player of Budapest: A True Story of Music, Survival and Hope by Roxanne de Bastion
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Heart of the Woods by Wyl Menmuir
£10.99
David's Bookshop Broken Threads: My Family from Empire to Independence by Mishal Husain
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Paris Trilogy: A Life in Three Stories by Colombe Schneck
£10.99
David's Bookshop Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos by Keith Lowe
£12.99
David's Bookshop Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind: In Pursuit of Remarkable Mushrooms by Richard Fortey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sanctuary by Marina Warner
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Upside-Down World: Meetings with the Dutch Masters by Benjamin Moser
£18.99
David's Bookshop Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders and the Rise of Social Engineering by Malcolm Gladwell
£12.99
David's Bookshop Downfall: The Self-Destruction of the Conservative Party by Nadine Dorries
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Plot: The Shocking Inside Story of Who Really Runs Britain by Nadine Dorries
£10.99
David's Bookshop Vulture Capitalism: How to Survive in an Age of Corporate Greed by Grace Blakeley
£10.99
David's Bookshop No Way Out: Brexit: from the Backstop to Boris by Tim Shipman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Every Man for Himself and God against All: A Memoir by Werner Herzog
£10.99
David's Bookshop More Than a Game: A History of How Sport Made Britain by David Horspool
£12.99
David's Bookshop Precious: The History and Mystery of Gems Across Time by Helen Molesworth
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Mudlarking Year: Finding Treasure in Every Season by Lara Maiklem
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book of the Frog by Sally Coulthard
£10.99
David's Bookshop Folklore of the Sea: Myths and Legends of the Maritime World by Margaret Baker
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Thousand Feasts: Small Moments of Joy … A Memoir of Sorts by Nigel Slater
£12.99
David's Bookshop You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life by Benji Waterhouse
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk by Kathleen Hanna
£10.99
David's Bookshop Our Daily War by Andrey Kurkov
£10.99
David's Bookshop Fall of Civilizations: Stories of Greatness and Decline by Paul Cooper
£12.99
David's Bookshop Who Owns the Moon?: In Defence of Humanity’s Common Interests in Space by A.C. Grayling
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Slice of Fried Gold: Taste my Memories by Nick Frost
£10.99
David's Bookshop Make It Make Sense: The Bedside Table Essential For Women In Their Twenties by Bel Hawkins & Lucy Blakiston
£10.99
David's Bookshop Old Songs: Stories of Love and Death from Traditional Ballads by Amy Jeffs & Gwen Burns
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Cuckoo's Lea: The Forgotten History of Birds and Place by Michael J. Warren
£20.00
David's Bookshop Birthing by Davina McCall (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop No Other Place: My Autobiography by George North (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Inside by Boris Becker
£22.00
David's Bookshop Fly, Wild Swans: My Mother, Myself and China by Jung Chang (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Truly by Lionel Richie (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop RHS The Garden Almanac 2026: The month-by-month guide to your best ever gardening year
£14.99
David's Bookshop Seven Rivers: A Journey Through the Currents of Human History by Vanessa Taylor
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad: A True Story of Science and Sacrifice in a City under Siege by Simon Parkin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Return of the Grey Partridge: Restoring Nature on the South Downs by Roger Morgan-Grenville & Edward Norfolk
£12.99
David's Bookshop Outdoor Tracking Handbook: How to find anything in the wild by Ray Mears
£19.99
David's Bookshop The Whispers of Rock: Stories from the Earth by Anjana Khatwa
£25.00
David's Bookshop Philip's 2026 Stargazing Month-by-Month Guide to the Night Sky Britain & Ireland by Nigel Henbest
£6.99
David's Bookshop Night Sky Almanac 2026: A Stargazer’s Guide by Radmila Topalovic & Dominic Ford
£9.99
