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 Even the Good Girls Will Cry: My ’90s Rock Memoir by Melissa Auf der Maur
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Heartbreaker: A Memoir by Mike Campbell
£12.99
David's Bookshop Honey, Baby, Mine by Laura Dern & Diane Ladd
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Hard Day's Night by Samira Ahmed
£12.99
David's Bookshop To Hell With Poverty!: A Class Act: Inside the Gang of Four by Jon King
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Power of Music: How Music Connects Us All by Sheku Kanneh-Mason
£11.99
David's Bookshop Escaping Babylon: An Intimate History of Black British Music by Jesse Bernard
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Vocal Break by Lauren Elkin
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Visions, Dreams & Rumours: A Portrait of Stevie Nicks by Zoe Howe
£14.99
David's Bookshop No Lessons Learned: The Making of Curb Your Enthusiasm as Told by Larry David and the Cast and Crew by Larry David
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop David Bowie Is
£32.00 £28.00
David's Bookshop Teenage Kicks: My Life as an Undertone by Michael Bradley
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Madman's Orchestra by Edward Brooke-Hitching
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher
£10.99
David's Bookshop Punk: The Last Word by Stephen Colegrave & Chris Sullivan
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Your Life Is Manufactured: How the World is Made and How We Can Do it Better by Tim Minshall
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Log Books: Voices of Queer Britain and the Helpline that Listened by Tash Walker & Adam Zmith
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie
£12.99
David's Bookshop Fashioning the Crown: A Story of Power, Conflict and Couture by Justine Picardie
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Unspeakable: Survival and Transformation After Trauma by Gwen Adshead
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Dark Frontier: Unlocking the Secrets of the Deep Sea by Jeffrey Marlow
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre
£25.00
David's Bookshop Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City by Peter Ackroyd (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Golden Mole: and Other Vanishing Treasure by Katherine Rundell
£20.00
David's Bookshop Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur by Jeff Pearlman
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Life on a Little-Known Planet: Dispatches from a Changing World by Elizabeth Kolbert
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Bonfire of the Insanities: How Does This Government Thing Work Again? by John Crace
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Natural Pigment Handbook: A Maker’s Guide to the Art, Stories and Recipes for Creating Paint by Lucy Mayes
£19.99
David's Bookshop The Rest Is Quiz
£14.99
David's Bookshop Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They're Too Much, From the Star of Wicked by Cynthia Erivo
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Always Home, Always Homesick: A Love Letter to Iceland by Hannah Kent
£16.99
David's Bookshop Out: How Brexit Got Done and the Tories Were Undone by Tim Shipman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Picasso: A Biography by Patrick O’Brian
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Cauldron by Simon Sebag Montefiore (SIGNED, PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Liturgies of the Wild: Myths that Make Us by Martin Shaw
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Learn Like a Lobster: Grow as you go, fuel your own progress, accelerate your career by Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Intimate Animal: How We Evolved to Love and What it Means for Our Relationships Now by Dr Justin Garcia
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The World After Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
£11.99
David's Bookshop What Did the Deep Sea Say? by Marion Coutts
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Colour by Mark Haddon
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Tell Me How You Eat: Food, Power and the Will to Live by Amber Husain
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop Frontierlands: Britain’s Survival in the Making by Hazel Sheffield
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Politics Without Politicians: The Case for Citizen Rule by Helene Landemore
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Bonded by Evolution: What We’ve Got Wrong About Love and Connection by Paul Eastwick
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Bimbo by Ashley James
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Learning from Silence: Finding clarity and calm in a world of mounting uncertainty by Pico Iyer
£10.99
