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 Patti Smith: Horses, Paris 1976 by Claude Gassian
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Greengrass Papers by Tom Shone
£30.00
David's Bookshop Rumours of My Demise: A Memoir by Evan Dando
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Uncool by Cameron Crowe
£22.00
David's Bookshop Insomnia by Robbie Robertson
£25.00
David's Bookshop Rebel Without a Cause by Glyn Davis
£12.99
David's Bookshop The 'Before' Trilogy by Lucas Hilderbrand
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Horror of It All: One Moviegoer's Love Affair with Masked Maniacs, Frightened Virgins, and the Living Dead... by Adam Rockoff
£9.99
David's Bookshop Trip to the Moon: Understanding the True Power Of Story by John Yorke
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema by Ericka Knudson
£26.00
David's Bookshop The Hidden Seasons by Tristan Gooley (SIGNED INDIE EDITION)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Fun Lovin’ Criminal by Huey Morgan (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Emerald Drifters by Cig Harvey
£39.95
David's Bookshop Leo Villareal: Coding Light
£59.95
David's Bookshop Tom Sachs Guide
£69.95
David's Bookshop The Contemporary Garden
£44.95
David's Bookshop You’re Embarrassing Yourself by Desiree Akhavan
£10.99
David's Bookshop 2026 Guide to the Night Sky: A Month-by-Month Guide to Exploring the Skies Above Britain and Ireland
£7.99
David's Bookshop A Truce That Is Not Peace by Miriam Toews
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Voyage Around the Queen by Craig Brown
£10.99
David's Bookshop Drinking the World: A Wine Odyssey by Bert Blaize & Victoria Brzezinski
£22.00
David's Bookshop Paul Weller: Dancing Through the Fire: The Authorised Oral History by Dan Jennings (SIGNED)
£30.00
David's Bookshop Words for Life: That Will Make Every Day Better by Susie Dent (SIGNED)
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Flow: Rivers, Water and Wildness – WINNER OF THE 2023 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING by Amy-Jane Beer
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Way Home: Tales from a life without technology by Mark Boyle
£10.99
David's Bookshop The North Road by Rob Cowen
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Stranger in the Woods: 'A meditation on solitude, wildness and survival' by Michael Finkel
£9.99
David's Bookshop WITCH: An Anthology by Michelle Tea
£13.99
David's Bookshop Permaculture: Planting the seeds of radical regeneration by Maya Blackwell
£8.99
David's Bookshop Divide: The relationship crisis between town and country by Anna Jones
£10.99
David's Bookshop What Grows Together: Fail-safe Plant Combinations for Every Garden by Jamie Butterworth
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Cutting Garden: Growing and Arranging Garden Flowers by Sarah Raven
£25.00
David's Bookshop Grow Your Own Cut Flowers: a practical, step-by-step guide to growing the best flowers to pick and arrange at home by Sarah Raven
£30.00
David's Bookshop Planting a Paradise: A year of pots and pollinators by Arthur Parkinson
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Flower Yard: Growing Flamboyant Flowers in Containers by Arthur Parkinson
£25.00
David's Bookshop Hen Party: A Celebration by Arthur Parkinson
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (& How It Came to Control Your Life) by George Monbiot & Peter Hutchison
£10.99
David's Bookshop Saint Petersburg: Sacrifice and Redemption in the City That Defied Hitler by Sinclair McKay
£25.00
David's Bookshop Nuclear War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
£10.99
David's Bookshop How to Win the Premier League: The Inside Story of Football’s Data Revolution by Ian Graham
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nine Minds: Inner Lives on the Spectrum by Daniel Tammet
£10.99
David's Bookshop Street-Level Superstar: A Year With Lawrence by Will Hodgkinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Living on Earth: Life, Consciousness and the Making of the Natural World by Peter Godfrey-Smith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Night of Power: The Betrayal of the Middle East by Robert Fisk
£14.99
David's Bookshop Three Revolutions: Russia, China, Cuba and the Epic Journeys that Changed the World by Simon Hall
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Position of Spoons: and other intimacies by Deborah Levy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Victory in Australia: The Remarkable Story of England's Greatest Ashes Triumph 1954-55 by Richard Whitehead
£20.00 £18.00
