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 The Apple: A Delicious History by Sally Coulthard
£10.99 £9.89
David's Bookshop The Secret World of Twilight: A Natural History of Dusk and Dawn by Sally Coulthard
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop A Brief History of the Coast in 100 Objects by Sally Coulthard
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Sunak at 10: The Last Conservative Prime Minister by Anthony Seldon
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Through the Windows of an Ordinary House: A History of England by Ian Mortimer
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop All You Can Eat: A Peckish Tour of Britain’s Best Food by Ben Benton
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop An A-Z of Chinese Food by Jenny Lau
£12.99 £11.69
David's Bookshop Homesteading for Beginners: All the Tools You Need to Thrive Long Term by Lisa Lombardo
£12.99 £10.40
David's Bookshop The Gardener and the Moth: Planting for Moths and Butterflies by Susie White
£8.99 £8.00
David's Bookshop Companion Planting: Create a Flourishing Kitchen Garden By Matchmaking Your Plants by Ortrud Grieb
£16.99 £14.45
David's Bookshop How to Start a Market Garden: The Comprehensive Guide to Starting a Sustainable Vegetable-growing Business by Kate Collyns
£20.00 £18.50
David's Bookshop The Regenerative Gardener's Handbook: Essential Techniques for Growing a Garden That Sustains Itself and Leaves the Land Healthier than You Found It by Briana S. Bosch
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Wild & Free Garden: Transform Your Outdoor Space with Found Materials, Community Sharing, and Creative Ingenuity by Stephanie Rose
£18.99 £16.15
David's Bookshop Dopamine Gardening: Joyful Outdoor Projects for Every Season and Any Space by Amy Chapman
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop The Kitchen Garden by Toby Musgrave
£29.95 £25.45
David's Bookshop How to Make and Use Compost: The Practical Guide for Everyone by Nicky Scott
£18.99 £16.15
David's Bookshop The Ethical Gardener by Thomas Rutter
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop The Bee-Spotter’s Guide by Dave Goulson
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Atlas of Car Design: The World's Most Iconic Cars by Jason Barlow
£49.95
David's Bookshop Boater: A Life on England's Waterways by Jo Bell
£16.99
David's Bookshop Auto Biography: An A-Z Expose of Cars by Mat Watson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Lonely Planet Epic Train Trips of the World
£29.99
David's Bookshop Himmler’s Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment by Simon Weisz
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Algorithm by Jon McNeill
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Likeable: How I Broke Free From The Need To Please by Fearne Cotton
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Quinn Slobodian & Ben Tarnoff
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop How Flowers Made Our World by David George Haskell
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Secure: The Revolutionary Guide to Creating a Secure Life by Amir Levine
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Rasputin: And the Downfall of the Romanovs by Antony Beevor
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Curious Cats and Fantastical Felines: Cats in folklore, myth and legend by Willow Winsham
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Tsundoku: The Art of Collecting Books by Taiki Raito Pym
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Start With Yourself by Emma Grede
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Monsters in the Archives: My Year of Fear with Stephen King by Caroline Bicks
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Lost Voices of Pompeii: The Final Day in Seven Lives by Dr Jess Venner
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Savage Landscape by Cal Flyn
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Tonight the Music Seems So Loud: The Meaning of George Michael by Sathnam Sanghera
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop My Gardening Life by Mary Berry
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival by Serhii Plokhy
£12.99
David's Bookshop A Year in Nature: A Celebration of the Seasons by Lia Leendertz
£10.00
David's Bookshop Final Destination: Riding Britain’s Trains to the End of the Line by Nige Tassell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects by Bee Wilson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Miami by Joan Didion
£10.99
David's Bookshop Salvador by Joan Didion
£10.99
David's Bookshop I Write to Find Out What I am Thinking: Collected Non Fiction by Joan Didion
£17.99
David's Bookshop Stone Lands: A Journey of Darkness and Light Through Britain’s Ancient Places by Fiona Robertson
£12.99
David's Bookshop 1975: The Year the World Forgot by Dylan Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop How to Fly: Taking Wing with Birds, Bats, Insects and Humans by Simon Barnes
£22.00 £19.80
