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 Screen Deep : How film and TV can solve racism and save the world by Ellen E. Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Unfinished Harauld Hughes by Richard Ayoade
£9.99
David's Bookshop Wes Anderson: The Iconic Filmmaker and his Work by Ian Nathan
£28.00
David's Bookshop Story by Robert Mckee
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Forest Is the Path by Gary Lightbody
£14.99
David's Bookshop Calling Una Marson: The Extraordinary Life of a Forgotten Icon by June Sarpong & Jennifer Obidike
£20.00
David's Bookshop Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World by Maxim Samson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Carthage by Eve MacDonald
£22.00
David's Bookshop Homo Criminalis: How Organised Crime Organises the World by Mark Galeotti
£22.00
David's Bookshop King of Kings: The Fall of the Shah, the 1979 Iranian Revolution and the Unmaking of the Modern Middle East by Scott Anderson
£25.00
David's Bookshop Island at the Edge of the World: The Forgotten History of Easter Island by Mike Pitts
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to the Tompkins Square Riots by Jonathan Mahler
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Life and Death of King Richard III by Anthony Cheetham
£30.00
David's Bookshop Those Who Are About To Die: Gladiators and the Roman Mind by Harry Sidebottom
£25.00
David's Bookshop Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train by Monisha Rajesh
£22.00
David's Bookshop War and Power by Phillips Payson O'Brien
£22.00
David's Bookshop Chasing the Dark: Encounters with the supernatural by Ben Machell
£22.00
David's Bookshop Born: A History of Childbirth by Lucy Inglis
£25.00
David's Bookshop All Consuming: Why We Eat The Way We Eat Now by Ruby Tandoh
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Rage of Party by George Owers
£30.00
David's Bookshop Dark London: A Journey Through the City's Mysterious and Macabre Underworld by Dr. Drew Gray
£16.99
David's Bookshop Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox
£25.00
David's Bookshop Heirs and Graces: A History of the Modern British Aristocracy by Eleanor Doughty
£30.00
David's Bookshop Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Times Sir: The Year in Letters 2025
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor England Through its Art and Objects by Christina J. Faraday
£40.00
David's Bookshop Tunisgrad: Victory in Africa by Saul David
£25.00
David's Bookshop Fenwomen: A Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sparta: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Superpower by Andrew Bayliss
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Book of Sea Monsters: Leviathans of Literature by Dr Prema Arasu
£25.00
David's Bookshop Extraordinary Islands: An atlas of unlikely places by Alastair Bonnett
£20.00
David's Bookshop Short History of Ancient Rome by Pascal Hughes
£20.00
David's Bookshop Revolting: A riotous history of rebellions and revolutions by Terry Deary
£22.00
David's Bookshop Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City by Peter Ackroyd
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Build a Spitfire by David Price
£25.00
David's Bookshop Queens at War by Alison Weir
£25.00
David's Bookshop Beyond the Veil: The Victorian Obsession With Mourning and Death by Paul Gambino
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
£25.00
David's Bookshop On Antisemitism: A Word in History by Mark Mazower
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Glass Mountain: Escape and Discovery in Wartime Italy by Malcolm Gaskill
£25.00
David's Bookshop Crucible of Light: Islam and the forging of Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century by Elizabeth Drayson
£30.00
David's Bookshop Henry V: The Astonishing Rise of England's Greatest Warrior King by Dan Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Big Payback: the case for reparations for slavery and how they would work by Lenny Henry & Marcus Ryder
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Build a Haunted House: The History of a Cultural Obsession by Caitlin Blackwell Baines
£22.00
David's Bookshop I'm No Expert, But … : Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph Vol. 17
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival by Serhii Plokhy
£30.00
David's Bookshop Warhead: How the Brain Shapes War and War Shapes the Brain by Nicholas Wright
£22.00
