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 Children of Ash and Elm: A History of the Vikings by Neil Price
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Ship Asunder: A Maritime History of Britain in Eleven Vessels by Tom Nancollas
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Turning Tide: A Biography of the Irish Sea by Jon Gower
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Frontier Below: The Past, Present and Future of Our Quest to Go Deeper Underwater by Jeff Maynard
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Marches: Border walks with my father by Rory Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Tomb With a View – The Stories & Glories of Graveyards by Peter Ross
£10.99
David's Bookshop Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane
£10.99
David's Bookshop Erebus: The Story of a Ship by Michael Palin
£10.99
David's Bookshop Shadowlands: A Journey Through Lost Britain by Matthew Green
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lost in the Lakes: Notes from a 379-Mile Hike Around the Lake District by Tom Chesshyre
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Tourist : What Happens on Tour Stays on Tour … Until Now! by Phil Tufnell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Ship Beneath the Ice: The Discovery of Shackleton's Endurance by Mensun Bound
£10.99
David's Bookshop World Travel: An Irreverent Guide by Anthony Bourdain
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Places In Between: A vivid account of a death-defying walk across war-torn Afghanistan by Rory Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Full English: A Journey in Search of a Country and its People by Stuart Maconie
£10.99
David's Bookshop Abroad in Japan by Chris Broad
£10.99
David's Bookshop Fabric: The Hidden History of the Material World by Victoria Finlay
£12.99
David's Bookshop Architecture: A Very Short Introduction by Andrew Ballantyne
£8.99
David's Bookshop Architecture: From Prehistory to Climate Emergency by Barnabas Calder
£10.99
David's Bookshop How to Build Impossible Things: Lessons in Life and Carpentry by Mark Ellison
£10.99
David's Bookshop 50 Architecture Ideas You Really Need to Know by Philip Wilkinson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Seashaken Houses: A Lighthouse History from Eddystone to Fastnet by Tom Nancollas
£10.99
David's Bookshop Britain's 100 Best Railway Stations by Simon Jenkins
£15.99
David's Bookshop Humanise: A Maker’s Guide to Building Our World by Thomas Heatherwick
£15.99
David's Bookshop The Palace: From the Tudors to the Windsors, 500 Years of History at Hampton Court by Gareth Russell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church by Peter Ross
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Life Eclectic: Brilliantly Unique Interior Designs from Around the World by Alexander Breeze
£35.00
David's Bookshop Create: At Home with Old & New by Ali Heath
£30.00
David's Bookshop A Modern Way to Live: 5 Design Principles from The Modern House by Matt Gibberd
£26.00
David's Bookshop Philosophy of the Home: Domestic Space and Happiness by Emanuele Coccia
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Only Way Is Up: How to Take Britain from Austerity to Prosperity by Polly Toynbee & David Walker
£14.99
David's Bookshop A Brutal Reckoning: The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South by Peter Cozzens
£12.99
David's Bookshop Art on My Mind: Visual Politics by Bell Hooks
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Thames & Hudson Introduction to Art by Debra J. DeWitte, Ralph M. Larmann & M.Kathryn Shields
£39.95
David's Bookshop Aesthetic Theory by Theodor W. Adorno
£22.99
David's Bookshop Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction by David Cottington
£8.99
David's Bookshop Strange Impressions by Romaine Brooks
£10.95
David's Bookshop Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction by Julian Stallabrass
£8.99
David's Bookshop Colours of Art: The Story of Art in 80 Palettes by Chloe Ashby
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Understand Art by Janetta Rebold Benton
£12.99
David's Bookshop Walking
£20.00
David's Bookshop Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex by Sophia Giovannitti
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart by Julia Cameron
£18.99
David's Bookshop How to Write About Contemporary Art by Gilda Williams
£16.99
David's Bookshop Postmodernism: A Very Short Introduction by Christopher Butler
£8.99
David's Bookshop The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change by Robert Hughes
£35.00
