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 Bird School: A Beginner in the Wood by Adam Nicolson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Tough Plants: Garden gladiators that pack a punch in extreme weather by Val Bourne
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Kindest Garden: A Practical Guide to Regenerative Gardening by Marian Boswall
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop RHS Grow Your Own Veg Through the Year: 365 Days of Homegrown Vegetables & Herbs
£26.00
David's Bookshop Silvohorticulture: A grower's guide to integrating trees into crops by Andy Dibben and Ben Raskin
£20.00
David's Bookshop RHS Grow Food Anywhere: How to Plant the Right Crops in the Right Place and Help Your Garden Thrive by Lucy Chamberlain
£20.00
David's Bookshop Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
£22.00
David's Bookshop My Family: The Memoir by David Baddiel
£10.99
David's Bookshop The God Desire by David Baddiel
£9.99
David's Bookshop Resistance by Steve McQueen
£25.00
David's Bookshop Your Life Is Manufactured: How We Make Things, Why It Matters and How We Can Do It Better by Tim Minshall
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Hidden Portraits: The untold stories of six women who loved Picasso by Sue Roe
£25.00
David's Bookshop Nettles and Petals: Grow Food. Eat Weeds. Save Seeds. by Jamie Walton
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Fulvia: The Woman Who Broke All the Rules in Ancient Rome by Jane Draycott
£20.00
David's Bookshop William Blake and The Sea Monsters of Love by Philip Hoare
£18.99
David's Bookshop Every Monument Will Fall: A Prehistory of the Culture War by Dan Hicks
£25.00
David's Bookshop Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife by Francesca Wade
£20.00
David's Bookshop How To Art by Kate Bryan & TOTE BAG & PIN BADGE
£16.99
David's Bookshop Sarah Raven's Garden Cookbook by Sarah Raven
£35.00
David's Bookshop Matrescence: On the Metamorphosis of Pregnancy, Childbirth and Motherhood by Lucy Jones
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Pregnancy Encyclopedia: All Your Questions Answered
£25.00
David's Bookshop When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Mate
£12.99
David's Bookshop Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Argue With a Meat Eater (And Win Every Time) by Ed Winters
£10.99
David's Bookshop How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older by Michael Greger
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Life-Changing Magic of Quitting Alcohol by Sharon Hartley
£12.99
David's Bookshop The School of Life Guide to Modern Manners: how to navigate the dilemmas of social life by The School of Life
£9.99
David's Bookshop Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Julie Smith
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Older I Get… : How I repowered my life by Fern Britton
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt
£10.99
David's Bookshop Red Memory: The Afterlives of China's Cultural Revolution by Tania Branigan
£9.99
David's Bookshop Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West by Dee Brown
£10.99
David's Bookshop France on Trial: The Case of Marshal Petain by Julian Jackson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall by Anna Funder
£9.99
David's Bookshop Lismore Castle: Food and Flowers from a Historic Garden by Lady Laura Cavendish
£38.95
David's Bookshop The Making of the Modern Middle East: A Personal History by Jeremy Bowen
£10.99
David's Bookshop Pathogenesis: How germs made history by Jonathan Kennedy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain by Sathnam Sanghera
£10.99
David's Bookshop SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Professor Mary Beard
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War by Ben Macintyre
£10.99
David's Bookshop SAS: Rogue Heroes by Ben Macintyre
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: The International Bestseller by Rashid I. Khalidi
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Silk Roads: A New History of the World by Professor Peter Frankopan
£16.99
David's Bookshop The First Crusade: The Call from the East by Peter Frankopan
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World by Bettany Hughes
£12.99
