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 Heresy: Jesus Christ and the Other Sons of God by Catherine Nixey
£12.99
David's Bookshop How the World Made the West: A 4,000-Year History by Josephine Quinn
£12.99
David's Bookshop Rites of Passage: Death and Mourning in Victorian Britain by Judith Flanders
£12.99
David's Bookshop Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J. Bass
£12.99
David's Bookshop Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg
£10.99
David's Bookshop Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s War (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week) by Jen Stout
£12.99
David's Bookshop Between Britain: Walking the History of England and Scotland by Alistair Moffat
£10.99
David's Bookshop The North Pole: The History of an Obsession by Erling Kagge
£22.00
David's Bookshop Saltwater Cure: True stories of the transformative power of the ocean by Ali Gripper
£20.00
David's Bookshop This Book May Save Your Life: Everyday Health Hacks to Worry Less and Live Better by Dr Karan Rajan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Open When… : A Companion for Life’s Twists & Turns by Julie Smith
£20.00
David's Bookshop Make Change That Lasts: 9 Simple Ways to Break Free from the Habits that Hold You Back by Dr Rangan Chatterjee
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
£10.99
David's Bookshop Why We Remember: Revealing the Hidden Power of Memory by Dr Charan Ranganath
£10.99
David's Bookshop Stalking the Atomic City: Life Among the Decadent and the Depraved of Chornobyl by Markiyan Kamysh
£10.99
David's Bookshop Black Ghosts: A Journey Into the Lives of Africans in China by Noo Saro-Wiwa
£10.99
David's Bookshop Under the Hornbeams: A true story of life in the open by Emma Tarlo
£10.99
David's Bookshop Atlas of Anomalous AI
£38.99
David's Bookshop The Virgin Suicides by Sofia Coppola
£40.00
David's Bookshop The Royal Palaces: Secrets and Scandals by Kate Williams
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary by Catherine Gray
£10.99
David's Bookshop Scotland's Forgotten Past: A History of the Mislaid, Misplaced and Misunderstood by Alistair Moffat
£9.99
David's Bookshop Wild: Tales from Early Medieval Britain by Amy Jeffs
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Frayed Atlantic Edge: A Historian’s Journey from Shetland to the Channel by David Gange
£10.99
David's Bookshop Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life by Dr Michael Mosley
£9.99
David's Bookshop Interesting Stories about Curious Words: From Stealing Thunder to Red Herrings by Susie Dent
£12.99
David's Bookshop Trees - 10 Things You Should Know: The perfect stocking filler for Christmas by Carolyn Fry
£12.99
David's Bookshop Sarn Helen: A Journey Through Wales, Past, Present and Future by Tom Bullough
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lochs and Legends: A Scotsman's Guide to the Heart of Scotland by Andy the Highlander
£16.99
David's Bookshop Unlawful Killings: Life, Love and Murder: Trials at the Old Bailey by Her Honour Wendy QC Joseph
£10.99
David's Bookshop In Patagonia: (Vintage Voyages) by Bruce Chatwin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815 – 1945 by N A M Rodger
£40.00
David's Bookshop The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Battle of the Beams: The secret science of radar that turned the tide of the Second World War by Tom Whipple
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg
£22.00
David's Bookshop Kubrick: An Odyssey by Robert P. Kolker & Nathan Abrams
£20.00
David's Bookshop Down the Drain by Julia Fox
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Life of Birds by David Attenborough
£10.99
David's Bookshop How Painting Happens (and why it matters) by Martin Gayford
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Path to Paradise: A Francis Ford Coppola Story by Sam Wasson
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Short History of Trans Misogyny by Jules Gill-Peterson
£14.99
David's Bookshop Why Women Grow: Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival by Alice Vincent
£10.99
David's Bookshop An Almost Impossible Thing: The radical lives of Britain's pioneering women gardeners by Fiona Davison
£12.00
David's Bookshop A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
£5.99
David's Bookshop Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya
£12.99
David's Bookshop Inventing the Modern : Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art by Anna Deavere Smith
£40.00
