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 Still Waters & Wild Waves by Angela Harding
£25.00
David's Bookshop Art Hole by Joe Lycett
£35.00
David's Bookshop Simply Jamie: Fast & Simple Food by Jamie Oliver
£30.00
David's Bookshop And Away... by Bob Mortimer
£9.99
David's Bookshop Akikomatic: The Work of Akiko Stehrenberger (Second Edition) by Akiko Stehrenberger
£44.99
David's Bookshop Gomorrah by Roberto Saviano
£10.99
David's Bookshop Confessions of a Sociopath by M.E. Thomas
£10.99
David's Bookshop Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis by Jonathan Blitzer
£9.99
David's Bookshop Space Oddities: The Mysterious Anomalies Challenging Our Understanding Of The Universe by Harry Cliff
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Science of Racism: Everything you need to know but probably don't - yet by Keon West
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Shadow Path: A Journey to Uncovering Your Depths and Illuminating Your Full Potential by Chelsey Pippin Mizzi
£10.99
David's Bookshop Outrage : Why The Fight for LGBTQ+ Equality Is Not Yet Won And What We Can Do About It by Ellen Jones
£20.00
David's Bookshop How To Think Like Socrates: Ancient Philosophy as a Way of Life in the Modern World by Donald Robertson
£22.00
David's Bookshop Iron Hope: Lessons Learned from Conquering the Impossible by James Lawrence
£22.00
David's Bookshop Three Wild Dogs (and the truth) by Markus Zusak
£16.99
David's Bookshop Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries: How Women (Also) Built the World by Kate Mosse
£10.99
David's Bookshop Write for Life: A Toolkit for Writers from the author of multimillion bestseller THE ARTIST'S WAY by Julia Cameron
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Artist's Way Workbook: A Companion to the International Bestseller by Julia Cameron
£16.99
David's Bookshop Summer's Hum by Angela Harding
£12.99
David's Bookshop Between Two Waters: Heritage, landscape and the modern cook by Pam Brunton
£20.00
David's Bookshop A Year in Bloom: Flowering Bulbs for Every Season by Lucy Bellamy
£29.95
David's Bookshop Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
£12.99
David's Bookshop New English Interiors: At Home with Today's Creatives by Elizabeth Metcalfe
£28.00
David's Bookshop How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity by Jill Burke
£11.99
David's Bookshop The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell
£8.99
David's Bookshop Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
£9.99
David's Bookshop Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
£8.99
David's Bookshop This is Not Miami by Fernanda Melchor
£12.99
David's Bookshop Archive by Sofia Coppola
£55.00
David's Bookshop Tracey Emin Paintings
£79.95
David's Bookshop Shining Lights: Black Women Photographers in 1980s–90s Britain by Joy Gregory
£60.00
David's Bookshop On the Dance Floor: Spinning Out on Screen by Claire M. Healy
£50.00
David's Bookshop Tee A. Corinne: A forest fire between us
£50.00
David's Bookshop The Last Safe Abortion by Carmen Winant
£45.00
David's Bookshop Little Joe: A book about queers and cinema, mostly by Sam Ashby
£35.00
David's Bookshop Origami Garden: 35 Butterflies, Birds, Flowers, and More to Fold in an Instant
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome by Harry Sidebottom
£10.99
David's Bookshop Finding Endurance: Shackleton, My Father and a World Without End by Darrel Bristow-Bovey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tempest: The Royal Navy and the Age of Revolutions by James Davey
£25.00
David's Bookshop Shackleton: Explorer. Leader. Legend. by Ranulph Fiennes
£12.99
David's Bookshop Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia by David Graeber
£10.99
David's Bookshop Tutankhamun's Trumpet: The Story of Ancient Egypt in 100 Objects by Toby Wilkinson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Messalina: The Life and Times of Rome’s Most Scandalous Empress by Honor Cargill-Martin
£10.99
David's Bookshop In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny by Daisy Dunn
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Young Alexander: The Making of Alexander the Great by Alex Rowson
£10.99
