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 German Home Kitchen: Traditional Recipes That Capture the Flavors of Germany by Sophie Sadler
£20.00
David's Bookshop Classic Koffmann: A Chef’s Cookbook by Pierre Koffmann
£30.00
David's Bookshop Home by India Knight
£22.00
David's Bookshop 168 Songs of Hatred and Failure: A History of Manic Street Preachers by Keith Cameron (SIGNED)
£68.00 £60.00
David's Bookshop RSPB Birding Year: Seasonal tips and activities to learn about bird behaviour by Dominic Couzens & Sian Duncan
£16.99
David's Bookshop Restoring the Wild: Creation, Restoration and Management by Donald MacIntyre
£24.00
David's Bookshop Biodynamic Gardening: Organic Growing Guided by the Moon for Bountiful Harvests
£22.00
David's Bookshop Wild History: Journeys into Lost Scotland by James Crawford
£12.99
David's Bookshop A Little History of Art by Charlotte Mullins
£10.99
David's Bookshop Spring: The Story of a Season by Michael Morpurgo
£16.99
David's Bookshop Homeward Bound: The joy of nature and my life outdoors by Hamza Yassin (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Mind of My Own by Kathy Burke
£22.00
David's Bookshop The New Age of Sexism: How the AI Revolution is Reinventing Misogyny by Laura Bates
£20.00
David's Bookshop Softly, as I Leave You by Priscilla Presley (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop England: A Natural History by John Lewis-Stempel
£10.99
David's Bookshop Land is All That Matters: The Struggle That Shaped Irish History by Myles Dungan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Book-Makers: A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives by Adam Smyth
£12.99
David's Bookshop Obsessed: The Autobiography by Johnny Sexton
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Green Ages: Medieval Innovations in Sustainability by Annette Kehnel
£11.99
David's Bookshop Catland: Feline Enchantment and the Making of the Modern World by Kathryn Hughes
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wild Woman: Empowering Stories from Women who Work in Nature by Philippa Forrester
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book of ABBA: The Inside Story of the World's Favourite Band by Jan Gradvall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Bad Taste: Or the Politics of Ugliness by Nathalie Olah
£10.99
David's Bookshop Reborn: Early Diaries 1947-1963 by Susan Sontag
£10.99
David's Bookshop At the Same Time by Susan Sontag
£12.99
David's Bookshop Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Very Private School by Charles Spencer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Never Understood: The Story of The Jesus and Mary Chain by William Reid, Jim Reid
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hunt for the Shadow Wolf by Derek Gow
£12.99
David's Bookshop Birds, Beasts and Bedlam: Turning My Farm into an Ark for Lost Species by Derek Gow
£12.99
David's Bookshop Sword Beach: The Untold Story of D-Day’s Forgotten Victory by Stephen Fisher
£10.99
David's Bookshop Walk Through Walls: A Memoir by Marina Abramovic
£10.99
David's Bookshop 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Reimagined Home: Sustainable Spaces Created with Joy by Nicole Gray
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Clouds by Susan E. Clark
£10.00
David's Bookshop Bees by Susan E. Clark
£10.00
David's Bookshop Ferns: Lessons in Survival From Earth’s Most Adaptable Plants by Fay-Wei Li & Jacob S. Suissa
£30.00
David's Bookshop Piece by Piece: 20 Modern Patchwork and Quilting Projects to Make from Preloved Fabrics by Lauren MacDonald
£18.99 £15.20
David's Bookshop Planting for Garden Birds: A Grower's Guide to Creating a Bird-Friendly Habitat by Jane Moore
£14.00
David's Bookshop Permanent Red: Essays in Seeing by John Berger
£11.99
David's Bookshop Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger
£11.99
David's Bookshop Forgotten Churches: Exploring England's Hidden Treasures by Luke Sherlock
£15.99
David's Bookshop Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker by Alice Walker
£18.99 £16.99
David's Bookshop The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins
£22.99 £19.99
David's Bookshop A New English Style: Timeless Interiors by Mary Graham, Nicole Salvesen & David Nicholls
£35.00 £31.50
