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 All the Way to the River: Love, Loss and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert
£22.00
David's Bookshop Dear England: Lessons on Leadership by Gareth Southgate
£25.00
David's Bookshop Persiana Easy by Sabrina Ghayour
£27.00
David's Bookshop The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects by Bee Wilson
£18.99
David's Bookshop Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood
£30.00
David's Bookshop Helen Chadwick: Life Pleasures by Laura Smith
£30.00
David's Bookshop Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tracker by Alexis Wright
£19.99
David's Bookshop Sister in Law : Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men by Harriet Wistrich
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sister in Law : Fighting for Justice in a System Designed by Men by Harriet Wistrich
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Peepshow: The Murders at 10 Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
£22.00
David's Bookshop What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World's Ocean by Helen Scales
£12.99
David's Bookshop By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land by Rebecca Nagle
£10.99
David's Bookshop Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley
£12.99
David's Bookshop Why Fish Don't Exist : A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World by Lulu Miller
£16.99
David's Bookshop Ootlin by Dr Jenni Fagan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ootlin by Dr Jenni Fagan
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Thousand Threads by Neneh Cherry
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV by Helen Castor
£12.99
David's Bookshop Embers of the Hands: Hidden Histories of the Viking Age by Eleanor Barraclough
£11.99
David's Bookshop Autocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum
£10.99
David's Bookshop Notes to John by Joan Didion
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Absence: Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer by Budgie (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places by Fiona Robertson
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Women Are Not Fine: The untold story of the women behind the greatest mass poisoning of the 20th century by Hope Reese
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Curepedia: The Story of The Cure by Simon Price
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Minimalist Photographer: 50 techniques for capturing beauty in simplicity by Antony Zacharias
£16.99 £15.30
David's Bookshop The Green Bullet: The rise, fall and resurrection of Alejandro Valverde and Spanish cycling’s corruption by Matt Rendell
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hip-Hop Is History: The New York Times bestseller by Questlove
£12.99 £11.70
David's Bookshop The Absence: Memoirs of a Banshee Drummer by Budgie
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop How to End a Story: Collected Diaries by Helen Garner
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Treated Like Animals: Improving the Lives of the Creatures We Own, Eat and Use by Alick Simmons
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Living Soil Handbook: The No-Till Grower's Guide to Ecological Market Gardening by Jesse Frost
£22.99
David's Bookshop The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka
£7.99
David's Bookshop Leftovers: A History of Food Waste and Preservation by Eleanor Barnett
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Biochar Handbook: A Practical Guide to Making and Using Bioactivated Charcoal by Kelpie Wilson
£35.00
David's Bookshop Against the Grain: How Farmers around the Globe Are Transforming Agriculture to Nourish the World and Heal the Planet by Roger Thurow
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Regenerative Agriculture Solution: A Revolutionary Approach to Building Soil, Creating Climate Resilience, and Supporting Human and Planetary Health by Andre Leu & Ronnie Cummins
£20.00
David's Bookshop Twelve Sheep: Life lessons from a lambing season by John Connell
£9.99 £9.00
David's Bookshop A Wilder Way: How Gardens Grow Us by Poppy Okotcha
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Vertical Veg Guide to Container Gardening: How to Grow an Abundance of Herbs, Vegetables and Fruit in Small Spaces by Mark Ridsdill Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Water-Smart Garden: Techniques and Strategies for Conserving, Capturing, and Efficiently Using Water in Today's Climate... and Tomorrow's by Noelle Johnson
£22.00
David's Bookshop From the Agriculture Course to Sustainable Farming: 100 Years of the Biodynamic Movement by Rudi Bind & Ueli Hurter
£14.99
