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 Neu Klang: The Definitive History of Krautrock by Christoph Dallach
£12.99
David's Bookshop Guitar by Earl Slick & Jeff Slate
£10.99
David's Bookshop 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan
£12.99
David's Bookshop When Gavin Met Stacey and Everything in Between: A Story of Love and Friendship by James Corden & Ruth Jones (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI by Madhumita Murgia
£10.99
David's Bookshop Dispersals: On Plants, Borders and Belonging by Jessica J. Lee
£10.99
David's Bookshop Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter by Kat Hill
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wasteland: The Dirty Truth About What We Throw Away, Where It Goes, and Why It Matters by Oliver Franklin-Wallis
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back by Sophie Yeo
£10.99
David's Bookshop It's Not Just You by Tori Tsui
£10.99
David's Bookshop Groundbreakers: The Return of Britain’s Wild Boar by Chantal Lyons
£11.99
David's Bookshop Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction by John Vaillant
£12.99
David's Bookshop Confidence: 8 steps to knowing your worth by Roxie Nafousi
£16.99
David's Bookshop Mythic Plants: Potions and Poisons from the Gardens of the Gods by Ellen Zachos
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Medicinal Garden: Treat, feed and soothe straight from your garden by Caroline Parker
£19.99
David's Bookshop For the Love of Plants: Over 150 Plants to Bring Joy to Your Garden and Your Life by Adam Frost
£22.00
David's Bookshop Gardeners' World: The Flower Thesaurus: Colourful Pairings and Plant Ideas for the Creative Gardener by Liz Potter
£26.00
David's Bookshop The Permaculture Garden: A Practical Approach to Year-round Harvests by Huw Richards
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Container Gardening Handbook: A Beginner’s Guide to Growing Flowers in Pots by Isabelle Palmer
£14.99
David's Bookshop Weathering by Ruth Allen
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Money-Saving Garden Year: A Month-by-month Guide to a Great Garden that Costs Less by Anya Lautenbach
£16.99
David's Bookshop Wonderlands: British Garden Designers at Home by Clare Coulson
£40.00
David's Bookshop Drawing Nature: 100 Prompts, Projects and Playful Exercises by Viktorija Semjonova
£14.99 £13.50
David's Bookshop The Good Slug Guide: How to tackle the slugs and snails in your garden and help save the planet by Jo Kirby
£12.99
David's Bookshop Chicken Boy: My Life With Hens by Arthur Parkinson
£14.99
David's Bookshop Derek Jarman: The Authorised Biography by Tony Peake
£30.00
David's Bookshop Breaking Bread: How Baking Shaped Our World by David Wright
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Garden Against Time by Olivia Laing
£10.99
David's Bookshop Everyday Permaculture: Sustainable Living For Every Space by Anna Matilda Gibbons
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Genius Gut: How to Boost Your Mood and Health from the Inside Out by Dr Emily Leeming
£10.99
David's Bookshop Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results by James Clear
£17.99
David's Bookshop The Full Moon Yearbook: A Year of Ritual and Healing Under the Light of the Full Moon by Julie Peters
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Meditation Yearbook: 52 Meditations for a Year of Mindfulness, Connection and Inner Peace by Joey Hulin
£14.99
David's Bookshop How to Eat (And Still Lose Weight): The Science to Surviving Our Ultra-Processed Food Environment by Dr Andrew Jenkinson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Self Help: This Is Your Chance to Change Your Life by Gabrielle Bernstein
£20.00
David's Bookshop Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things by Adam Grant
£10.99
David's Bookshop I Love You, Byeee: Rambles on DIY Tv, Rockstars, Kids and Mums by Adam Buxton
£22.00
David's Bookshop It’s Complicated: Confessions of Messy Modern Love by Philippa Found
£12.99
David's Bookshop The History Trees: Extraordinary Tales of Trees Through Time by Colin Salter
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Everything You Need to Know About the Pill (but were too afraid to ask) by Kate Muir
£10.99
David's Bookshop I Was There: Dispatches from a Life in Rock and Roll by Alan Edwards
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Last Bell: Life, Death and Boxing by Donald McRae
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Rebel Romanov by Helen Rappaport
£25.00
David's Bookshop Crypt: Life, Death and Disease in the Middle Ages and Beyond by Alice Roberts
£10.99
David's Bookshop Under a Metal Sky: A Journey Through Minerals, Greed and Wonder by Philip Marsden
£20.00
