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 On Silbury Hill by Adam Thorpe
£14.00
David's Bookshop Going to Ground: An anthology of nature and place edited by Jon Woolcott
£16.00
David's Bookshop Brightening from the East by Ken Worpole
£16.00
David's Bookshop Nature Needs You: The Fight to Save Our Swifts by Hannah Bourne-Taylor
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Barrister for the Earth: Ten Cases of Hope for Our Future by Monica Feria-Tinta
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Pathless Forest: The Quest to Save the World’s Largest Flowers by Dr Chris Thorogood
£12.99
David's Bookshop Environomics: How the Global Economy is Going Green by Dharshini David
£10.99
David's Bookshop Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, from Farm to Fable by Will Potter (PRE-ORDER)
£13.99
David's Bookshop Feeding Britain: Our Food Problems and How to Fix Them by Tim Lang
£12.99
David's Bookshop Kings of Their Own Ocean: Tuna and the Future of Our Oceans by Karen Pinchin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and its Role in the Climate Crisis by Annie Proulx
£9.99
David's Bookshop The English Path by Kim Taplin
£14.00
David's Bookshop A Brief History of the Countryside in 100 Objects by Sally Coulthard
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Curious Life of the Cuckoo by John Lewis-Stempel
£9.99
David's Bookshop In Search of the Perfect Peach: Why flavour holds the answer to fixing our food system by Franco Fubini
£20.00
David's Bookshop Renewing Earth: A Global Exploration of the Roots of a Regenerative Future by Kelsey Timmerman
£21.99
David's Bookshop The Future of Agriculture by Sarah Bearchell
£9.99
David's Bookshop Renaturing: Small Ways to Wild the World by James Canton
£18.99
David's Bookshop Tank: The 10 War Machines That Changed the World and the Remarkable Men Behind Them by Mark Urban
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Great Exchange: Making the News in Early Modern Europe by Joad Raymond Wren
£40.00
David's Bookshop Deep House : The Gayest Love Story Ever Told by Jeremy Atherton Lin
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Meditations for Mortals: A Four Week Guide to Doing What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Arnhem: Black Tuesday by Al Murray
£10.99
David's Bookshop PATRIOT by Alexei Navalny
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Place of Tides by James Rebanks
£10.99
David's Bookshop Odyssey by Stephen Fry
£10.99
David's Bookshop How Animals Heal Us by Jay Griffiths
£20.00
David's Bookshop Enchanted Ground: Growing Roots in a Broken World by Steven Lovatt (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Frankly by Nicola Sturgeon (SIGNED)
£28.00
David's Bookshop Pathemata: Or, The Story of My Mouth by Maggie Nelson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Chutzpah : A memoir of faith, sexuality and daring to stay by Yehudis Fletcher
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Always Winning by Ashley Walters
£20.00
David's Bookshop Dianaworld: An Obsession by Edward White
£25.00
David's Bookshop Our Island Stories: Ten Walks through Rural Britain and Its Hidden History of Empire by Corinne Fowler
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748–1789 by Robert Darnton
£16.99
David's Bookshop Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World by David Van Reybrouck
£14.99
David's Bookshop Cunning Folk: Life in the Era of Practical Magic by Tabitha Stanmore
£10.99
David's Bookshop Arnhem’s Last Para by John Humphreys & Stuart Tootal
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cassino '44: Five Months of Hell in Italy by James Holland
£10.99
David's Bookshop SAS 101 by Titch Cormack
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The People’s War: Unheard Voices: Life on the Battlefront and at Home in World War II by John Willis
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Roma: A Travelling History by Madeline Potter
£22.00
David's Bookshop Thomas More: A Life by Dr Joanne Paul
£30.00
David's Bookshop Sceptred Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century by Helen Carr (SIGNED, SPRAYED EDGE EDITION)
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Human Rights: The Case for the Defence by Shami Chakrabarti
£10.99
David's Bookshop Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story by Serhii Plokhy
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Leadership: Lessons for the 21st Century by Tony Blair
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Searchers: Five Rebels, Their Dream of a Different Britain, and Their Many Enemies by Andy Beckett
£9.99
