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 The Walnut Tree: Women, Violence and the Law – a Hidden History by Kate Morgan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Can Feminism be African? : A Most Paradoxical Question by Minna Salami
£22.00
David's Bookshop Wages for Housework : The Story of a Movement, an Idea, a Promise by Emily Callaci
£25.00
David's Bookshop Wanderlust : A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit
£10.99
David's Bookshop Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
£10.99
David's Bookshop No Straight Road Takes You There: Essays for Uneven Terrain by Rebecca Solnit
£16.99
David's Bookshop A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
£10.99
David's Bookshop Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain by Aniefiok Ekpoudom
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Strangers : Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them by Ekow Eshun
£20.00
David's Bookshop According to G: The Autobiography by Geraint Thomas (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Humble Pi : A Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Secret Lives of Numbers : A Global History of Mathematics & Its Unsung Trailblazers by Kate Kitagawa & Timothy Revell
£12.99
David's Bookshop Once Upon a Prime : The Wondrous Connections Between Mathematics and Literature by Sarah Hart
£10.99
David's Bookshop Quantum Leaps : How Maths is Shaping the Future by Hugh Barker
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Great Auk: Its Extraordinary Life, Hideous Death and Mysterious Afterlife by Tim Birkhead
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Proof : The Uncertain Science of Certainty by Adam Kucharski
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Nature's Genius: Evolution's Lessons for a Changing Planet by David Farrier
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Great Nerve : The New Science of the Vagus Nerve and How to Harness Its Healing Reflexes by Dr Kevin Tracey
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Empire of AI : Inside the reckless race for total domination by Karen Hao
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop No Such Thing as Normal : Disorders, Diagnoses and the Limits of Psychiatry by Marieke Bigg
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Good Nature: The New Science of How Nature Improves Our Health by Kathy Willis
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Laws of Connection: 13 Social Strategies That Will Transform Your Life by David Robson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Sexual Evolution: How 500 million years of sex, gender and mating shape modern relationships by Nathan H. Lents
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop A Crack in Everything: How Black Holes Came in from the Cold and Took Cosmic Centre Stage by Marcus Chown
£12.99
David's Bookshop Unequal: The Maths of When Things Do and Don’t Add Up by Eugenia Cheng
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Going Nuclear : How the Atom Will Save the World by Tim Gregory
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Anti-Catastrophe League: The Pioneers and Visionaries on a Quest to Save the World by Tom Ough
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Secret Life of the Periodic Table : Unlocking the mysteries of all 118 elements by Dr Dr Ben Still
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Secret Life of Equations: The 50 Greatest Equations and How They Work by Richard Cochrane
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells us about the Power of the Female Body by Starre Vartan
£22.00
David's Bookshop Into the Clear Blue Sky: The Path to Restoring Our Atmosphere by Rob Jackson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sink or Swim : How the world needs to adapt to a changing climate by Susannah Fisher
£18.99
David's Bookshop When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows... : Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage by Steven Pinker
£25.00
David's Bookshop Human Peoples : On the Genetic Traces of Human Evolution, Migration and Adaptation by Lluis Quintana-Murci (PRE-ORDER)
£10.99
David's Bookshop Spinosaur Tales: The Biology and Ecology of the Spinosaurs by David Hone & Mark Witton
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Brief History of Intelligence : Why the Evolution of the Brain Holds the Key to the Future of Ai by Max Bennett
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Hidden Life of Trees : What They Feel, How They Communicate by Peter Wohlleben
£9.99
David's Bookshop What If? : Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions by Randall Munroe
£10.99
David's Bookshop How To : Absurd Scientific Advice for Common Real-World Problems from Randall Munroe of xkcd by Randall Munroe
£10.99
David's Bookshop Dopamine Nation : Why our Addiction to Pleasure is Causing us Pain by Dr Anna Lembke
£10.99
David's Bookshop Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole : Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Dr Allan Ropper & Brian David Burrell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Our Brains, Our Selves : What a Neurologist’s Patients Taught Him About the Brain by Masud Husain
£20.00
David's Bookshop Breakthrough : How to Think Like a Scientist, Learn to Fail and Embrace the Unknown by Camilla Pang
£10.99
David's Bookshop Impossible Monsters : How the Discovery of Dinosaurs Changed the World by Michael Taylor
£12.99
David's Bookshop Systemic: How Racism Harms Health – and What We Can Do About It by Dr Layal Liverpool
£10.99
David's Bookshop Every Living Thing : The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life by Jason Roberts
£12.99
