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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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
David's Bookshop Paper Doll : Notes From A Late Bloomer by Dylan Mulvaney
£22.00
David's Bookshop It Came From the Closet : Queer Reflections on Horror by Kirsty Logan
£14.99
David's Bookshop Love Expanded : How asexuals and aromantics are redefining love, life and family by Wren Burke
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Diaries of Mr Lucas: Life in 1960s Gay London by Hugo Greenhalgh
£10.99
David's Bookshop Guest Privileges : Queer Lives and Finding Home in the Middle East by Gaar Adams
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wild Grace : The Untamed Women of Modern Dance by Sara Veale
£25.00
David's Bookshop Deficit : How Feminist Economics Can Change Our World by Emma Holten
£18.99
David's Bookshop A Dirty, Filthy Book: Annie Besant’s Fight for Reproductive Rights by Michael Meyer
£10.99
David's Bookshop Trans Femme Futures : Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds by Nat Raha & Mijke van der Drift
£16.99
David's Bookshop Feminism, Interrupted : Disrupting Power by Lola Olufemi
£10.99
David's Bookshop Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Right-Wing Women by Andrea Dworkin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Every Man : Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference by Dr Jackson Katz
£10.99
David's Bookshop Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi
£9.99
David's Bookshop Hood Feminism : Notes from the Women White Feminists Forgot by Mikki Kendall
£9.99
David's Bookshop Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all by Laura Bates
£9.99
David's Bookshop Communion : The Female Search for Love by bell hooks
£10.99
David's Bookshop Radical Intimacy by Sophie K Rosa
£14.99
David's Bookshop Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
£9.99
David's Bookshop Immaculate Forms : Uncovering the History of Women's Bodies by Helen King
£11.99
David's Bookshop White Tears Brown Scars : How White Feminism Betrays Women of Colour by Ruby Hamad
£9.99
David's Bookshop Good Girls Gossip: Find Your Female Power by Tova Leigh
£18.99
David's Bookshop Down Girl : The Logic of Misogyny by Kate Manne
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Feminist Killjoy Handbook by Sara Ahmed
£10.99
David's Bookshop Pixel Flesh : The distortion of the female body in a world obsessed by image – and how we can change it by Ellen Atlanta
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Dry Season: Finding Pleasure in a Year Without Sex by Melissa Febos
£16.99
David's Bookshop Hark: How Women Listen by Alice Vincent (SIGNED)
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Glass Cliff : Why Women in Power Are Undermined - and How to Fight Back by Sophie Williams
£10.99
David's Bookshop (Un)kind : How 'Be Kind' Entrenches Sexism by Victoria Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan
£9.99
David's Bookshop Liquid Reflections by Liliane Lijn
£20.00
David's Bookshop My Own Story (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Emmeline Pankhurst
£5.99
