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 Observant Walker : Wild Food, Nature and Hidden Treasures on the Pathways of Britain by John Wright
£12.99
David's Bookshop Alan Partridge: Big Beacon : The hilarious new memoir from the nation's favourite broadcaster by Alan Partridge
£10.99
David's Bookshop SAS Forged in Hell: From Desert Rats to Dogs of War: The Mavericks who Made the SAS by Damien Lewis
£9.99
David's Bookshop Dear Cisgender People : A Guide to Trans Allyship and Empathy by Kenny Ethan Jones
£16.99
David's Bookshop Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience and Family Secrets by Burkhard Bilger
£10.99
David's Bookshop Among Others : Friendships and Encounters by Michael Frayn
£12.99
David's Bookshop Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances : A Life In Mod – From the Revival to Acid Jazz by Eddie Piller
£12.99
David's Bookshop Bad Girls of Ancient Greece : Myths and Legends from the Baddies That Started it All by Lizzy Tiffin
£14.99
David's Bookshop Nick Drake: The Life by Richard Morton Jack
£16.99
David's Bookshop Back to the Local by Maurice Gorham
£10.00
David's Bookshop The Wisdom of Sheep & Other Animals: Observations from a Family Farm by Rosamund Young
£10.99
David's Bookshop Move Like Water : A Story of the Sea and Its Creatures by Hannah Stowe
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Thread of Violence : A Story of Truth, Invention, and Murder by Mark O'Connell
£9.99
David's Bookshop No Pie, No Priest: A Journey through the Folk Sports of Britain by Harry Pearson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Making a Scene by Constance Wu
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rural: The Lives of the Working Class Countryside by Rebecca Smith
£10.99
David's Bookshop Nazare : Life and Death with the Big Wave Surfers by Matt Majendie
£12.99
David's Bookshop Tree-spotting : A Simple Guide to Britain's Trees by Nell Bennett & Ros Bennett
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad: A Family Memoir of Miraculous Survival by Daniel Finkelstein
£10.99
David's Bookshop Edgeland : Walking the South West Coast Path by Sasha Swire
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Future of Dinosaurs: What We Don't Know, What We Can, and What We'll Never Know by David Hone
£12.99
David's Bookshop An Uneasy Inheritance : My Family and Other Radicals by Polly Toynbee
£10.99
David's Bookshop Once Upon a Time World: The Dark and Sparkling Story of the French Riviera by Jonathan Miles
£12.99
David's Bookshop Making It So: A Memoir by Patrick Stewart
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Leathercraft Handbook: 20 Unique Projects for Complete Beginners by Candice Lau
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Art of Repair: Mindful mending: how to stitch old things to new life by Molly Martin
£14.99
David's Bookshop White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
£9.99
David's Bookshop Footmarks: A Journey into Our Restless Past by Jim Leary
£10.99
David's Bookshop 1999: Manchester United, the Treble and All That by Matt Dickinson
£9.99
David's Bookshop Understorey: A Year Among Weeds by Anna Chapman Parker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ancestors: A prehistory of Britain in seven burials by Alice Roberts
£10.99
David's Bookshop Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
£10.99
David's Bookshop Is Maths Real? : How Simple Questions Lead Us to Mathematics’ Deepest Truths by Eugenia Cheng
£10.99
David's Bookshop Wounded Tigris: A River Journey through the Cradle of Civilisation by Leon McCarron
£12.99
David's Bookshop Democracy: Eleven writers and leaders on what it is – and why it matters
£7.99
David's Bookshop What Does Israel Fear from Palestine? by Raja Shehadeh
£7.99
David's Bookshop Witchcraft: A History in Thirteen Trials by Marion Gibson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Times Sir: The Year in Letters 2nd Edition
£9.99
David's Bookshop Britain’s Ghosts: A Spine-Chilling Tour of Our Most Haunted Places by Anna Groves
£12.99
David's Bookshop The World According to Joan Didion by Evelyn McDonnell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Console Chronicles by Lost in Cult
£40.00
David's Bookshop Around the World in 80 Games : A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Conflict : The Evolution of Warfare from 1945 to Ukraine by David Petraeus & Andrew Roberts
£12.99
David's Bookshop Quilts from the Country by Stuart Hillard
£25.00
David's Bookshop Normal Women: 900 Years of Making History by Philippa Gregory
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? by Guy Shrubsole
£10.99
