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 Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Harder I Fight The More I Love You: A Memoir by Neko Case
£25.00
David's Bookshop Curated Style : Artfully edited homes by Kerrie-Ann Jones
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Not for Art's Sake by Quentin Blake
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Colour of Clothes : Fashion and Dress in Autochromes 1907-1930 by Cally Blackman
£75.00 £67.50
David's Bookshop Screenprints (Victoria & Albert Museum): A History by Gill Saunders
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Life and Death of Peter Sellers by Roger Lewis
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk by Lally MacBeth
£20.00
David's Bookshop Joysticks to Haptics: A Visual History of Video Game Controllers by Lost in Cult
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop Lessons for Young Artists by David Gentleman
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Press Start: The Complete History of Video Gaming From Mario to Minecraft by Erwan Cario
£30.00
David's Bookshop Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now by Fiona Rogers & Max Houghton
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Little Frog's Guide to Life: Love, Advice and Inspiration for Every Day from the Internet’s Beloved Mushroom Frog by Maybell Eequay
£8.99
David's Bookshop Alexander McQueen
£30.00
David's Bookshop The History of Art in One Sentence: 500 Years of Art (But Funny) by Verity Babbs
£14.99
David's Bookshop Poor Artists by The White Pube
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ralph Steadman (Mini Edition): A Life in Ink by Ralph Steadman
£23.00 £19.99
David's Bookshop Jane Birkin: Icon of Style by Sophie Gachet
£50.00
David's Bookshop Dog Affirmations: An Illustrated Journey Through Your Dog's Thoughts by Andrea Caceres
£9.99
David's Bookshop Painting Woodland Watercolors: Learn to Paint Beautiful Mushrooms, Animals, Insects, and Other Forest Wonders by Rita Gould
£17.99
David's Bookshop Grime: Documenting the Scene’s Rise and Reign by Roony Keefe
£30.00
David's Bookshop Local Haunts by Adam Scovell
£11.99
David's Bookshop Wanda by Elena Gorfinkel
£12.99
David's Bookshop Some Like It Hot by Steven Cohan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Walking with Dinosaurs: Uncovering the Secret Stories of Prehistoric Life
£25.00
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David's Bookshop In the Mood for Love: [Huayang Nianhua] by Tony Rayns
£12.99
David's Bookshop Riddles of the Sphinx by Kimberly Lamm
£12.99
David's Bookshop Heat by Nick James
£12.99
David's Bookshop Black Girl (La noire de...) by Vlad Dima
£12.99
David's Bookshop Pink Flamingos: A Screenplay by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Desperate Living: A Screenplay by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Flamingos Forever: A Screenplay by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Jaws by Antonia Quirke
£12.99
David's Bookshop 50 Film Ideas You Really Need to Know by Helen O’Hara
£9.99
David's Bookshop Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle by Werner Herzog
£12.99
David's Bookshop Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music by Mark Kermode
£18.99
David's Bookshop Hanyo (The Housemaid) by Youngmin Choe
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Iconic Films by Nicolas Rapold
£25.00
David's Bookshop Studio Ghibli Kiki's Delivery Service: 30 Postcards
£13.99
David's Bookshop Colours of Wes Anderson: The Films in Palettes by Hannah Strong
£16.99
David's Bookshop From Under the Truck: A Memoir by Josh Brolin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog
£14.99
David's Bookshop Taylor Swift: Album by Album by Kase Wickman, Joanna Weiss & Moira McAvoy
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Chronology of Film: A Cultural Timeline from the Magic Lantern to the Digital Screen by Ian Haydn Smith
£19.99
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