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 Patria: Lost Countries of South America by Laurence Blair
£12.99
David's Bookshop Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs by Luis Elizondo
£10.99
David's Bookshop Slugs: A Manifesto (Expanded Edition) by Abi Palmer
£14.00
David's Bookshop Land Beneath the Waves: How the Natural World Helped One Woman Navigate Chronic Illness, Self-Acceptance and Belonging by Nic Wilson (SIGNED)
£18.99
David's Bookshop A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women: Essays on Art, Sex, and the Mind by Siri Hustvedt
£12.99
David's Bookshop Living, Thinking, Looking by Siri Hustvedt
£9.99 £9.00
David's Bookshop In Praise of the Earth: A Journey into the Garden by Byung-Chul Han
£16.99
David's Bookshop Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
£10.99
David's Bookshop True Colors: Color in Photography from 1849 to 1955
£45.00 £40.50
David's Bookshop Janaina Tschape: Painting with the Wind by Doris von Drathen
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Senga Nengudi: Populated Air by A.B. Spellmann
£39.95 £36.00
David's Bookshop Helen Frankenthaler: Move and Make by Douglas Dreishpoon
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Hilma af Klint and Wassily Kandinsky: Dreams of the Future by Julia Voss & Daniel Birnbaum
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop William Eggleston: The Last Dyes
£50.00
David's Bookshop Mamma Andersson: Adieu Maria Magdalena
£40.00
David's Bookshop Raymond Saunders: Post No Bills
£60.00
David's Bookshop Avian Inspiration: Art and Design Inspired by Birds
£32.00 £28.80
David's Bookshop Killing the Nerve by Anna Pazos
£13.99
David's Bookshop Melbourne Hall Garden by Jodie Jones
£35.00
David's Bookshop 200 Years of Britain's Railways in 14 Journeys by Sherin Aminosse
£35.00
David's Bookshop Literary Gardens: The imaginary gardens of writers and poets by Sandra Lawrence
£19.99
David's Bookshop On The Roof: A Thatcher's Journey by Tom Allan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Intertidal: The hidden world between land and sea by Yuvan Aves
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Wild Bee Handbook: The Amazing Lives of Our Wild Species and How to Help Them Thrive by Sarah Wyndham Lewis
£17.99
David's Bookshop Natural Connection: What indigenous wisdom & marginalised people teach us about environmental action by Joycelyn Longdon
£18.99
David's Bookshop Waste Wars: Dirty Deals, International Rivalries and the Scandalous Afterlife of Rubbish by Alexander Clapp
£25.00
David's Bookshop Hope Dies Last: Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future by Alan Weisman
£25.00
David's Bookshop Solitary Bees by Ted Benton & Nick Owens
£65.00 £50.00
David's Bookshop Woodston: The Biography of An English Farm - The Sunday Times Bestseller by John Lewis-Stempel
£10.99
David's Bookshop Steel River: Walking the Tees – A Journey Through Nature in a Human World by Steve Nicholls
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Fenland Garden: Creating a haven for people, plants & wildlife by Francis Pryor
£12.99
David's Bookshop In Search of One Last Song: Britain’s Disappearing Birds and the People Trying to Save Them by Patrick Galbraith
£9.99
David's Bookshop Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship with the Countryside by Patrick Galbraith
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Book of Vanishing Species: Illustrated Lives by Beatrice Forshall
£25.00
David's Bookshop How the World Eats: A Global Food Philosophy by Julian Baggini
£25.00
David's Bookshop Milk: The truth, the lies and the unbelievable story of the original superfood by Matthew Evans
£16.99
David's Bookshop Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World’s Natural History Museums by Jack Ashby
£25.00
David's Bookshop In the Garden: Essays on nature and growing
£9.99
David's Bookshop Words from the Hedge: A Hedgelayer’s View of the Countryside by Richard Negus
£16.99
David's Bookshop Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince (SIGNED)
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop English Pastoral: An Inheritance by James Rebanks
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Shepherd's Life: A Tale of the Lake District by James Rebanks
£10.99
David's Bookshop Living with the Earth: Volume 3: Creating a Microfarm: 3 by Perrine Herve-Gruyer
£35.00
David's Bookshop La Cucina di Terroni: The Cookbook by Cosimo Mammoliti
£27.00
David's Bookshop The Madrusan Cocktail Companion | Every drink worth drinking in the history of modern + classic cocktails : 3400+ cocktails with contributions from 100 of the world's best bartenders by Zara Madrusan & Michael Madrusan
£35.00
David's Bookshop Anthony Bourdain's Les Halles Cookbook: Strategies, Recipes, and Techniques of Classic Bistro Cooking by Anthony Bourdain
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Writer's Table: Famous authors and their favourite recipes by Valerie Stivers
£19.99
David's Bookshop Spinning Plates: Easy Dinners with Simple Substitutions for Busy Families by Anna Stanford
£22.00
