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 Strangeland : How Britain Stopped Making Sense by Jon Sopel
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Coming Storm: Inside America’s Radical New Politics of Paranoia by Gabriel Gatehouse
£12.99
David's Bookshop Somebody Told Me : A Tale of Lies, Spies and Conspiracies by Danny Wallace
£7.99
David's Bookshop Year of the Rat : Undercover in the British Far Right by Harry Shukman
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Nobody Can Give You Freedom : The Real Mission of Malcolm X by Kehinde Andrews
£25.00
David's Bookshop Who is Government? : The Untold Story of Public Service by Michael Lewis
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Siege: The Remarkable Story of the Greatest SAS Hostage Drama by Ben Macintyre
£10.99
David's Bookshop Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Knife : Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Pawtobiography: My adventures on Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog
£10.99
David's Bookshop My Family and Other Spies by Alistair Wood
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Perimeter: A Photographic Journey around the Coast of Britain by Quintin Lake
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Tree Hunting: 1,000 Trees to Find in Britain and Ireland’s Towns and Cities by Paul Wood
£30.00
David's Bookshop Grow Your Groceries: 40 Hacks for Growing Plants from Your Weekly Shop by Simon Akeroyd
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro
£12.99
David's Bookshop Defining Style : The Book of Interior Design by Joan Barzilay Freund
£49.95
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 La Maison: Decorating with French vintage style by Zoe de Las Cases
£30.00
David's Bookshop Dopamine Home : A bold guide to mood-boosting interiors by Rachel Verney
£25.00
David's Bookshop Master The Art Of Colour : Practical Advice from the Room Renovations Expert by Tash Bradley
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Moments at Home : Interior Inspiration for Every Room by Steve Cordony
£35.00
David's Bookshop Small Space, Big Living : Interior design to make every inch count by Sofie Hepworth
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop A Handheld History by Lost in Cult
£35.00
David's Bookshop King Charles III: 40 Years of Architecture: 2 by Clive Aslet
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Cocoon: Creating homes with heart by Ali Heath
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Curate : Inspiration for an Individual Home by Lynda Gardener & Ali Heath
£30.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of British Architecture: From Stonehenge to the Shard by Simon Jenkins
£12.99
David's Bookshop Interwar: British Architecture 1919-39 by Gavin Stamp
£25.00
David's Bookshop The City of Today is a Dying Thing : In Search of the Cities of Tomorrow by Des Fitzgerald
£9.99
David's Bookshop Interior Style: Art Deco by Lucy Derbyshire & Jena Quinn
£16.99
David's Bookshop Interior Style: Japandi by Katherine McLaughlin
£16.99
David's Bookshop To Hell With Poverty! : A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four by Jon King
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall by Tessa Norton & Mr Bob Stanley
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Unapologetic Expression: The Inside Story of the UK Jazz Explosion by Andre Marmot
£12.99
David's Bookshop Bono: Stories of Surrender by Bono
£12.99
David's Bookshop Looking for the Perfect Beat : Remixing and Reshaping Hip-Hop, Rock and Rhythms by Arthur Baker
£25.00
David's Bookshop Words for My Comrades : A Political History of Tupac Shakur by Dean Van Nguyen
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop A Sound So Very Loud : The Inside Story of Every Oasis Song Recorded by Ted Kessler & Hamish MacBain
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Pop Scars by Anthony Kavanagh
£22.00
David's Bookshop Shouting Out Loud: Lives of the Raincoats by Audrey Golden
£25.00
David's Bookshop Real Girl by Mutya Buena
£22.00
David's Bookshop Eternal Goth: Exploring the World’s Most Enigmatic Cultural Movement by Emma Madden
£18.99
David's Bookshop Prince: A Sign o' the Times by John McKie
£30.00
David's Bookshop Music’s Odyssey: An Invitation to Western Classical Music by Robin Holloway
£45.00
David's Bookshop Night People: How To Be a DJ in 90s New York City by Mark Ronson
£25.00
David's Bookshop Pearl Jam Live!: 35 Years of Legendary Music and Revolutionary Shows by Selena Fragassi
£22.00
David's Bookshop Alternative for the Masses: The '90s Alt-Rock Revolution - An Oral History by Greg Prato
£22.00
David's Bookshop Turn My Head Into Sound: A history of Kevin Shields and My Bloody Valentine by Andrew Perer
£16.95
