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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Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop Lives of the Artists, Lives of the Architects by Hans Ulrich Obrist
£14.99
David's Bookshop Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking by David Bayles & Ted Orland
£9.99
David's Bookshop Elements of Art: Ten Ways to Decode the Masterpieces by Susie Hodge
£15.99
David's Bookshop William Blake's Universe
£35.00
David's Bookshop Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? by Linda Nochlin
£9.99
David's Bookshop Steps Towards a Small Theory of the Visible by John Berger
£7.99
David's Bookshop About Looking by John Berger
£14.99
David's Bookshop Landscapes: John Berger on Art by John Berger
£12.99
David's Bookshop Portraits: John Berger on Artists by John Berger
£9.99
David's Bookshop What is Art? by Leo Tolstoy
£9.99
David's Bookshop Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today by Claire Bishop
£18.99
David's Bookshop Kandinsky: Incarnating Beauty by Alexandre Kojeve
£10.95
David's Bookshop Oh, To Be a Painter! by Virginia Woolf
£12.00
David's Bookshop Affinities by Brian Dillon
£13.99
David's Bookshop What is Black Art? by Alice Correia
£10.99
David's Bookshop Talk Art: Everything you wanted to know about contemporary art but were afraid to ask by Russell Tovey & Robert Diament
£25.00
David's Bookshop Talk Art The Interviews by Russell Tovey & Robert Diament
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Walter Benjamin
£7.99
David's Bookshop Create Dangerously by Albert Camus
£3.00
David's Bookshop Art Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Cynthia Freeland
£8.99
David's Bookshop Women in the Picture: Women, Art and the Power of Looking by Catherine McCormack
£10.99
David's Bookshop 100 Artists' Manifestos: From the Futurists to the Stuckists by Alex Danchev
£12.99
David's Bookshop Art as Therapy by Alain Botton & John Armstrong
£14.95
David's Bookshop Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Creativity by Julia Cameron
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Artist's Way: Luxury Hardback Edition by Julia Cameron
£25.00
David's Bookshop The World According to Colour: A Cultural History by James Fox
£12.99
David's Bookshop Concerning the Spiritual in Art by Wassily Kandinsky
£10.99
David's Bookshop Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood by Grayson Perry
£9.99
David's Bookshop Ways of Seeing by John Berger
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Battle of the Arctic by Hugh Sebag Montefiore
£30.00
David's Bookshop From Under the Truck by Josh Brolin
£22.00
David's Bookshop Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates
£25.00
David's Bookshop Five Quarters: Recipes and Notes from a Kitchen in Rome by Rachel Roddy
£20.00
David's Bookshop Politics on the Edge by Rory Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning by Maggie Nelson
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
£9.99
David's Bookshop On Freedom by Maggie Nelson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Into the Void: From Birth to Black Sabbath - and Beyond by Geezer Butler
£10.99
David's Bookshop Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by Max Hastings
£12.99
David's Bookshop Spielberg : A Retrospective
£28.00
David's Bookshop ADHD Girls to Women : Getting on the Radar by Lotta Borg Skoglund
£12.99
David's Bookshop Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong by Vaudine England
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Windsors at War: The Nazi Threat to the Crown by Alexander Larman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Answered Prayers : England and the 1966 World Cup by Duncan Hamilton
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hungry Heart : How the food we love shapes our lives by Clare Finney
£9.99
David's Bookshop Many Things Under a Rock : The Mysteries of Octopuses by David Scheel
£10.99
David's Bookshop Football And How To Survive It by Pat Nevin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Royal Wardrobe: peek into the wardrobes of history's most fashionable royals by Rosie Harte
£12.99
