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 All Things Considered: Thoughtful Interior Design that Mixes Pattern, Colour and Style by Emilio Pimentel-Reid
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Art in Residence: Collected Objects and the Architectural Homes They Live In by Nicole England
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop How to Grow Food in Your Polytunnel by Mark Gatter & Andy McKee
£16.99 £15.30
David's Bookshop Crafting with Flowers: Celebrate the Seasons with 20 Floral Projects by Bex Partridge
£16.99
David's Bookshop Studio Electrophonique: The Sheffield Space Age, from the Human League to Pulp by Jamie Taylor
£12.99
David's Bookshop Curepedia: The Story of The Cure by Simon Price
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Silver Snarling Trumpet by Robert Hunter
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Rejects: An Alternative History of Popular Music by Jamie Collinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mood Machine: The Rise of Spotify and the Costs of the Perfect Playlist by Liz Pelly
£22.00
David's Bookshop Loud Medicine: Dispatches from the Music Industry Underworld by James Kennedy
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Songs In The Key of MP3 : The New Icons of the Internet Age by Liam Inscoe-Jones
£20.00
David's Bookshop Fahrenheit-182: A Memoir by Mark Hoppus
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop In One Ear: Cocteau Twins, Ivor Raymonde and Me by Simon Raymonde
£10.99
David's Bookshop Uncommon People : Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs by Miranda Sawyer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Never: The Autobiography by Rick Astley
£10.99
David's Bookshop Brothers by Alex Van Halen
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cher: The Memoir, Part Two by Cher
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop So Tell Me What You Want : A life working with pop idols Take That, Prince, Amy Winehouse, the Spice Girls, David Bowie and more by Nicki Chapman
£10.99
David's Bookshop 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer by Ian Wade
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hope I Get Old Before I Die: Why rock stars never retire by David Hepworth
£10.99
David's Bookshop Finding My Voice: A Story of Strength, Self-Belief and S Club by Rachel Stevens
£10.99
David's Bookshop Under A Rock by Chris Stein
£12.99
David's Bookshop Down with the System: The highly-awaited memoir from the System Of A Down legend by Serj Tankian
£12.99
David's Bookshop Tales from the Dancefloor: Manchester / the Warehouse Project / Parklife / Sankeys / the HacIenda by Sacha Lord
£10.99
David's Bookshop Me and Mr Jones: My Life with David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars by Suzi Ronson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Veg in One Bed New Edition: How to Grow an Abundance of Food in One Raised Bed, Month by Month by Huw Richards
£20.00
David's Bookshop High Yield, Small Space Organic Gardening: Practical Tips for Growing Your Own Food by Christy Wilhelmi
£13.99
David's Bookshop The Garden: Visionary Growers and Farmers of the Counterculture by Matthew Ingram
£14.99
David's Bookshop RHS Slugs: Friend or Foe?: Know Your Slugs and Learn to Live With Them by Royal Horticultural Society
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Water-Efficient Gardener: Sustainable techniques for growing in a changing climate by Angela Youngman
£20.00
David's Bookshop Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship by Ryan Blosser & Trevor Piersol
£21.99
David's Bookshop Kitchen Garden Living: Seasonal Growing and Eating from a Beautiful, Bountiful Food Garden by Bailey Van Tassel
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The Classic Guide for Realists and Dreamers by John Seymour
£27.00
David's Bookshop Beginner's Guide to Self Sufficiency Projects for the Home: Grow Edibles, Raise Animals, Live Off The Grid & DIY
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Quiet Ear: An Investigation of Missing Sound by Raymond Antrobus
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Farm Shop Guide: Farm-to-Fork Food by Laura Collacott
£17.99
David's Bookshop How to Store Your Garden Produce: The Key to Self-Sufficiency by Piers Warren
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Joyful Environmentalist: How to Practise without Preaching by Isabel Losada
£12.99
David's Bookshop Allotment Gardening: An Organic Guide for Beginners by Susan Berger
£16.99
David's Bookshop Not the End of the World: Surprising facts, dangerous myths and hopeful solutions for our future on planet Earth by Hannah Ritchie
£10.99
David's Bookshop New Wild Order: how answering the call of the wild might just save your life (and sanity) by Andy Hamilton
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Small-Scale Poultry Flock, Revised Edition: An All-Natural Approach to Raising and Breeding Chickens and Other Fowl for Home and Market Growers by Harvey Ussery
£35.00
David's Bookshop Many Hands Make a Farm: 47 Years of Questioning Authority, Feeding a Community, and Building an Organic Movement by Jack Kittredge & Julie Rawson
£20.00
David's Bookshop Farming for the Long Haul: Resilience and the Lost Art of Agricultural Inventiveness by Michael Foley
£14.99
David's Bookshop Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy by Matthew Evans
£14.99
David's Bookshop Whistling in the Dark by Richard Mabey
£12.99
