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 The Serviceberry: An Economy of Gifts and Abundance by Robin Wall Kimmerer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sno: A History by Sverker Sorlin
£16.99
David's Bookshop Fishing Wisdom: A miscellany of angling anecdotes, facts and folklore by Dominic Garnett
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Wildflower Year: A Guide to Wildflowers, their Habitats & Histories by Frances Tophill
£18.99
David's Bookshop Night Life: Walking Britain’s wild landscapes after dark by John Lewis-Stempel
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Meteorites: Encounters with Outer Space and Deep Time by Helen Gordon
£10.99
David's Bookshop Coastal Seas by Dr Frances Dipper & Dr Paul Naylor
£40.00 £36.00
David's Bookshop The Other Fab Four: Our life in Britain's first female rock 'n' roll band by Mary McGlory
£10.99
David's Bookshop Loach on Loach: Updated edition by Graham Fuller
£14.99
David's Bookshop These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future by Philip Stephens
£25.00
David's Bookshop Keegan: The Man Who Was King by Anthony Quinn
£14.99
David's Bookshop Everything We Do is Music: How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop by Elizabeth Alker
£20.00
David's Bookshop Up the Youth Club: Illuminating a Hidden History by Emma Warren
£18.99
David's Bookshop A Year with Gilbert White: The First Great Nature Writer by Jenny Uglow
£25.00
David's Bookshop Box Office Poison: Hollywood’s Story in a Century of Flops by Tim Robey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Girl in a Band: tenth anniversary edition by Kim Gordon
£12.99
David's Bookshop Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties by Robert Elms
£20.00
David's Bookshop It’s Not Just A Song by RuthAnne Cunningham
£22.00
David's Bookshop Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT and the race that is changing the world by Parmy Olson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Searching for Dexys Midnight Runners by Nige Tassell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Curious Case of Mike Lynch: The Improbable Life & Death of a Tech Billionaire by Katie Prescott
£22.00
David's Bookshop Lush!: My Story - From Swansea to Stacey and Everything in Between by Joanna Page (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: China's Stolen Children and a Story of Separated Twins by Barbara Demick (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Salt Stones: A Shepherd's World, a Shepherd's Mind by Helen Whybrow
£18.99 £17.10
David's Bookshop The Definitive Guide to Horror Movies by Kim Newman & James Marriott
£25.00
David's Bookshop How High: A Portrait of The Charlatans by Tim Burgess & Tom Sheehan
£35.00
David's Bookshop Naked Portrait: A Memoir of my Father Lucian Freud by Rose Boyt
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Be a Goth: Notes on Undead Style by Tish Weinstock
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
£18.00
David's Bookshop Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin by Sue Prideaux
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting by Johnny Carter Cash & Mark Stielper
£40.00
David's Bookshop The Tree Hunters: How the Cult of the Arboretum Transformed Our Landscape by Thomas Pakenham
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Wonder of Insects: Uncovering their Hidden World: Fully Illustrated with 70 Stunning Species by Ross Piper
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Prophet: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Kahlil Gibran
£12.99
David's Bookshop Autobiography of a Yogi: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Paramahansa Yogananda
£12.99
David's Bookshop Meditations: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Marcus Aurelius
£12.99
David's Bookshop Think and Grow Rich: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Napoleon Hill
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Art of War: Timeless Wisdom Distilled by Sun Tzu
£12.99
David's Bookshop Strangeland: A special 20th anniversary edition of one of Britain's most acclaimed artist's memoir by Tracey Emin
£20.00
David's Bookshop WipEout Futurism: The Graphic Archives by Duncan Harris
£45.00
David's Bookshop Sega Mega Drive/Genesis: Ultimate Works by Keith Stuart
£50.00
David's Bookshop Lin-Manuel Miranda: The Education of an Artist by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner
£20.00
David's Bookshop Cat: On The Road To Find Out by Yusuf/Cat Stevens
£25.00
David's Bookshop From Here to the Great Unknown: A Memoir by Lisa Marie Presley & Riley Keough
£10.99
David's Bookshop Young Once: A Life Less Heavy by Nigel Planer
£22.00
David's Bookshop Rebel Sounds: Music as Resistance by Joe Mulhall
£10.99
