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
Paperback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop The Meaning of Beer: An Alternative History of the World by Jonny Garrett
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing: The Comedy Classic
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
£10.99
David's Bookshop Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
£12.99
David's Bookshop Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch
£18.99
David's Bookshop Echolands: A Journey in Search of Boudica by Duncan Mackay
£12.99
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 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
David's Bookshop Jesus Christ Kinski by Benjamin Myers
£18.99
David's Bookshop Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run by Paul McCartney
£35.00
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 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 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 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
