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 Advance Britannia: The Monumental Story of the Second World War: 1942-1945 by Alan Allport
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Year of Feasting & Festivities: A Celebration of the Seasons by Lia Leendertz
£10.00
David's Bookshop A Cheesemonger's Compendium of British & Irish Cheese by Ned Palmer
£14.99
David's Bookshop How the Cookie Crumbles: And Other Culinary Confusions by Tara Wigley
£16.99
David's Bookshop Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2026
£15.99
David's Bookshop A Cheesemonger’s Tour de France by Ned Palmer
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Travels by Marco Polo
£18.99
David's Bookshop Travels with Charley : In Search of America by John Steinbeck
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Motorcycle Diaries by Ernesto Che Guevara
£9.99
David's Bookshop Bothy Tales : Footsteps in the Scottish hills by John D. Burns
£9.99
David's Bookshop Now Then: The Story of Yorkshire and its People by Rick Broadbent
£10.99
David's Bookshop Island Dreams : Mapping an Obsession by Gavin Francis
£10.99
David's Bookshop To the Island of Tides : A Journey to Lindisfarne by Alistair Moffat
£10.99
David's Bookshop To the River: A Journey Beneath the Surface by Olivia Laing
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Pianos of Siberia by Sophy Roberts
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Living Stones : Cornwall by Ithell Colquhoun
£10.99
David's Bookshop brother. do. you. love. me. by Manni Coe & Reuben Coe
£10.99
David's Bookshop Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Old Ways : A Journey on Foot by Robert Macfarlane
£12.99
David's Bookshop As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Granite Kingdom: A Cornish Journey by Tim Hannigan
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Meaning of Beer: An Alternative History of the World by Jonny Garrett
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Drowned Places : Diving in Search of Atlantis by Damian Le Bas
£20.00
David's Bookshop Storm Pegs : A Life Made in Shetland by Jen Hadfield
£10.99
David's Bookshop Final Destination: Riding Britain’s Trains to the End of the Line by Nige Tassell
£20.00
David's Bookshop By the Sea: Your Coastline Companion, from Beautiful Beaches and Marine Miscellany, to Stunning Seashells, Seaweed, and Sealife by Susan Kelly
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Month in Siena by Hisham Matar
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Land Where Lemons Grow : The Story of Italy and its Citrus Fruit by Helena Attlee
£10.99
David's Bookshop North Coast 500
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Half Bird by Susan Smillie
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cypria: A Journey to the Heart of Cyprus by Alex Christofi
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cold Kitchen: A Year of Culinary Travels by Caroline Eden
£10.99
David's Bookshop Angels in the Cellar by Peter Hahn
£20.00
David's Bookshop Overnight : Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark by Dan Richards
£20.00
David's Bookshop Pathfinding : On Walking, Motherhood and Freedom by Kerri Andrews
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Woman in the Polar Night by Christiane Ritter
£12.99
David's Bookshop Climbing Days by Dorothy Pilley
£12.99
David's Bookshop Amuse Bouche: How to Eat Your Way Around France: A Times Best Food and Drink Book 2024 by Carolyn Boyd
£10.99
David's Bookshop Finding Hildasay : How one man walked the UK's coastline and found hope and happiness by Christian Lewis
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Waiter in Paris : Adventures in the Dark Heart of the City by Edward Chisholm
£10.99
David's Bookshop Triumphs, Trophies and Troubles : In Search of the Soul of Irish Rugby by Peter Bills
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Fiery Spirits: Popular Protest, Parliament and the English Revolution by John Rees
£30.00
David's Bookshop Dopamine Decor : Style Your Home With Colour, Joy and Fun by Kate Rose Morgan
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Big Mouth by Vogue Williams
£20.00
David's Bookshop Sceptred Isle: A new history of the fourteenth century by Helen Carr
£25.00
David's Bookshop Intimacy: A field guide to finding connection and feeling your deep desires by Ita O'Brien
£16.99
