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 Masters Of Doom: How two guys created an empire and transformed pop culture by David Kushner
£12.99
David's Bookshop Video Games: From Pong to the PS5 by Nicolo Mulas Marcello and Alberto Bertolazzi
£24.99
David's Bookshop How to Win At Chess: The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond by Levy Rozman
£20.00
David's Bookshop Before We Go Live: Navigating the Abusive World of Online Entertainment by Stephen Flavall
£10.99
David's Bookshop Joan Mitchell: Paintings, 1979-1985
£45.00
David's Bookshop Anaximander: And the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop Helgoland: The Strange and Beautiful Story of Quantum Physics by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
£10.99
David's Bookshop Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity by Carlo Rovelli
£9.99
David's Bookshop Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
£9.99
David's Bookshop Icons of England by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Troublesome Words by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Notes From A Big Country: Journey into the American Dream by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop One Summer: America 1927 by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mother Tongue: The Story of the English Language by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Walk In The Woods: The World's Funniest Travel Writer Takes a Hike by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Body Illustrated: A Guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Body: A Guide for Occupants - THE SUNDAY TIMES NO.1 BESTSELLER by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Down Under: Travels in a Sunburned Country by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain by Bill Bryson
£10.99
David's Bookshop It's a Farming Thing by Kaleb Cooper
£20.00
David's Bookshop How to be a Fit Bird by Marion Deuchars
£10.00
David's Bookshop Yoga for Stiff Birds by Marion Deuchars
£10.00
David's Bookshop Spring Unfurled by Angela Harding (SIGNED)
£12.99
David's Bookshop Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
£12.99
David's Bookshop Don't Look Back, You'll Trip Over: My Guide to Life by Michael Caine
£25.00
David's Bookshop Good Pictures Are a Strong Weapon: Laura Gilpin, Queerness, and Navajo Sovereignty by Louise Siddons
£27.99
David's Bookshop Walter Benjamin: A Little History of Photography
£9.95
David's Bookshop The Sunflowers are Mine: The Story of Van Gogh's Masterpiece by Martin Bailey
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Philosophy of Andy Warhol by Andy Warhol
£9.99
David's Bookshop Steve Schapiro: Andy Warhol and Friends
£60.00
David's Bookshop Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tracey Emin by Jonathan Jones
£14.99
David's Bookshop Strangeland: The memoirs of one of the most acclaimed artists of her generation by Tracey Emin
£12.99
David's Bookshop Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard
£12.99
David's Bookshop Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: The World Through Medieval Eyes by Anthony Bale
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
£9.99
