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 Doors Unhinged: Jim Morrison's Legacy Goes on Trial by John Densmore
£12.99
David's Bookshop How To Disappear: A Portrait of Radiohead by Colin Greenwood
£26.00
David's Bookshop EVERY MAN: Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, and How You Can Make a Difference by Dr Jackson Katz
£10.99
David's Bookshop On This Holy Island: A Modern Pilgrimage Across Britain by Oliver Smith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Get In: The Inside Story of Labour Under Starmer by Patrick Maguire & Gabriel Pogrund
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The World after Gaza by Pankaj Mishra
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates
£18.99
David's Bookshop MILF: Motherhood, Identity, Love and F*ckery by Paloma Faith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mining Men: Britain’s Last Kings of the Coalface by Emily P Webber
£22.00
David's Bookshop Another England: How to Reclaim Our National Story by Caroline Lucas
£10.99
David's Bookshop An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence by Zeinab Badawi
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Training School for Elephants by Sophy Roberts
£22.00
David's Bookshop Our Accidental Universe: Stories of Discovery from Asteroids to Aliens by Chris Lintott
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World’s Most Coveted Microchip by Stephen Witt
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Hohenzollerns and the Nazis: A History of Collaboration by Stephan Malinowski
£40.00
David's Bookshop Winkle: The Extraordinary Life of Britain’s Greatest Pilot by Paul Beaver
£10.99
David's Bookshop Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa by Anthony Grafton
£10.99
David's Bookshop Gods, Guns and Missionaries: The Making of the Modern Hindu Identity by Manu S Pillai
£35.00
David's Bookshop The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull
£30.00
David's Bookshop Friends in Youth: Choosing Sides in the English Civil War by Minoo Dinshaw
£30.00
David's Bookshop Great British Menu
£28.00
David's Bookshop How to Eat (And Still Lose Weight): A Science-backed Guide to Nutrition and Health by Dr Andrew Jenkinson
£10.99
David's Bookshop How We Break: Navigating the Wear and Tear of Living by Vincent Deary
£8.99
David's Bookshop Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I’d Known about Menopause by Naomi Watts
£22.00
David's Bookshop When Things Don’t Go Your Way: Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times by Haemin Sunim
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Giving Up by Adam Phillips
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don’t) by Philippa Perry
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Trading Game: A Confession by Gary Stevenson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Empireworld: How British Imperialism Has Shaped the Globe by Sathnam Sanghera
£10.99
David's Bookshop Unleashed by Boris Johnson
£30.00
David's Bookshop Love in Exile by Shon Faye
£20.00
David's Bookshop Hauntings: A Book of Ghosts and Where to Find Them Across 25 Eerie British Locations by Neil Oliver
£10.99
David's Bookshop Into the Uncanny by Danny Robins
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ghostland: In Search of a Haunted Country by Edward Parnell
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe by James Patterson
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Starling: A Biography by Stephen Moss
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ian Fleming: The Complete Man by Nicholas Shakespeare
£14.99
David's Bookshop Mornings With My Cat Mii by Mayumi Inaba
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club by Christopher de Hamel
£16.99
David's Bookshop Muslims Don't Matter by Sayeeda Warsi
£14.99
David's Bookshop Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery and Self-Making in Nineteenth Century America by Saidiya Hartman
£14.99
David's Bookshop Rebel Takes: On the Future of Food by Catherine Joy White
£12.99
David's Bookshop Sleepless: Discovering the Power of the Night Self by Annabel Abbs
£10.99
David's Bookshop Finding Home: A Windrush Story by Alford Dalrymple Gardner & Howard Gardner
£9.99
