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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Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop The National Trust Book of Nature-Friendly Gardening
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Start with Soil: Simple steps for a thriving garden by Juliet Sargeant
£15.99 £14.40
David's Bookshop Colour in the Garden: Stylish ideas for year-round colour by Lucy Bellamy
£25.00
David's Bookshop SAS Great Escapes Four by Damien Lewis
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Bookshop Woman by Nanako Hanada
£10.99
David's Bookshop Winter's Song by Angela Harding (SIGNED)
£12.99
David's Bookshop Falling into Autumn by Angela Harding (SIGNED)
£12.99
David's Bookshop 1975: The Year the World Forgot by Dylan Jones
£25.00
David's Bookshop Addicted to Anxiety by Owen O'Kane
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Adaptability: Seven Lessons to Thrive in a World of Competing Demands by Denise Lewis
£25.00
David's Bookshop Alice: The Story of Princess Andrew of Greece, Prince Philip's Extraordinary Mother by Hugo Vickers
£16.99
David's Bookshop Looking to Sea: Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists by Lily Le Brun
£14.99 £13.50
David's Bookshop The Short Story of Queer Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes & Breakthroughs by Dawn Hoskin
£18.99 £17.10
David's Bookshop Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dali by Michele Gerber Klein
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Thinking in Watercolor: A Daily Practice to Unlock Your Creativity & Discover Your Inner Artist by Jessie Kanelos Weiner
£15.99 £14.40
David's Bookshop White Male Stand Up by Alan Davies (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop It's Terrible The Things I Have to Do To Be Me: On Femininity and Fame by Philippa Snow
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Short Story of Contemporary Art: A Pocket Guide to Key Movements, Works, Themes & Techniques by Susie Hodge
£18.99 £17.10
David's Bookshop What Art Can Tell Us About Love by Nick Trend
£18.99
David's Bookshop With Nails by Richard E Grant
£10.99
David's Bookshop Beauty by Andy Warhol
£5.99
David's Bookshop For Art and for Life by Vincent Van Gogh
£5.99
David's Bookshop Can Socialists be Happy? by George Orwell
£5.99
David's Bookshop Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is by Friedrich Nietzsche
£5.99
David's Bookshop Coal by Audre Lorde
£5.99
David's Bookshop My Next Breath by Jeremy Renner (SIGNED)
£22.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Lockerbie: A Father’s Search for Justice by Doctor Jim Swire & Peter Biddulph
£10.99
David's Bookshop SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
£9.99
David's Bookshop Room to Dream by David Lynch & Kristine McKenna
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Salt Path by Raynor Winn (SIGNED INDIE EDITION)
£10.99
David's Bookshop 38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia by Philippe Sands (SIGNED)
£25.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Our Oaken Bones: Reviving a Family, a Farm and Britain’s Ancient Rainforests by Merlin Hanbury-Tenison (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Story of a Murder: The Wives, the Mistress and Dr Crippen by Hallie Rubenhold (SIGNED)
£25.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Breathe In, Breathe Out by Stuart Sandeman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Well Fed: How Modern Diets are Failing Us (and What We Can Do About it) by James Collier
£20.00
David's Bookshop Spring is the Only Season: How it Works, What it Does and Why it Matters by Simon Barnes
£18.99
David's Bookshop Women in Dark Times by Jacqueline Rose
£14.99
David's Bookshop Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
£14.99
David's Bookshop Dysphoria Mundi by Paul B. Preciado
£16.99
David's Bookshop Flower by Ed Atkins
£12.99
David's Bookshop Erik Satie Three Piece Suite by Ian Penman
£12.99
David's Bookshop The City and the World by Gregor Hens
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Possession by Annie Ernaux
£8.99
David's Bookshop David Lynch: His Work, His World by Tom Huddleston
£35.00
David's Bookshop Compost: Transform Waste into New Life by Charles Dowding
£14.99
