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 Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art by Stephen Nachmanovitch
£12.99
David's Bookshop Forms of Enchantment: Writings on Art & Artists by Marina Warner
£20.00
David's Bookshop 50 Philosophy Ideas You Really Need to Know by Ben Dupre
£9.99
David's Bookshop Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth: Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
£12.99
David's Bookshop Power: The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984 by Michel Foucault
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Psychopath Test : A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson
£10.99
David's Bookshop So You've Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The God Desire by David Baddiel
£9.99
David's Bookshop Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
£9.99
David's Bookshop Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus
£10.99
David's Bookshop Conspiracy Theory: The Story of an Idea (An Origin Story Book) by Ian Dunt & Dorian Lynskey
£9.99
David's Bookshop Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance : 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert Pirsig
£10.99
David's Bookshop Faith, Hope and Carnage by Nick Cave & Sean O'Hagan
£10.99
David's Bookshop On Violence by Hannah Arendt
£7.99
David's Bookshop The Unfamiliar : A Queer Motherhood Memoir by Kirsty Logan
£10.99
David's Bookshop Where the Hearth Is: Stories of home by Kate Humble
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Good Virus : The Mysterious Microbes that Rule Our World, Shape Our Health and Can Save Our Future by Tom Ireland
£12.99
David's Bookshop X Marks the Spot : An Adventurous History of Archaeology by Michael Scott
£12.99
David's Bookshop HISTORY HIT Guide to Medieval England : From the Vikings to the Tudors – and everything in between by History Hit
£16.99
David's Bookshop O Brother by John Niven
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Ragged Grace: A Memoir of Remembering and Forgetting by Octavia Bright
£10.99
David's Bookshop Lessons in Stoicism: What Ancient Philosophers Teach Us about How to Live by John Sellars
£7.99
David's Bookshop How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy by Julian Baggini
£10.99
David's Bookshop The War on the West: How to Prevail in the Age of Unreason by Douglas Murray
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
£9.99
David's Bookshop Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count. by Oliver Burkeman
£10.99
David's Bookshop Determined: The Science of Life Without Free Will by Robert M Sapolsky
£12.99
David's Bookshop Technofeudalism : What Killed Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Russo-Ukrainian War: From the bestselling author of Chernobyl by Serhii Plokhy
£10.99
David's Bookshop Free and Equal: What Would a Fair Society Look Like? by Daniel Chandler
£10.99
David's Bookshop Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
£9.99
David's Bookshop On Palestine by Noam Chomsky & Ilan Pappe
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Abuse of Power: Confronting Injustice in Public Life by Theresa May
£12.99
David's Bookshop It's OK To Be Angry About Capitalism by Bernie Sanders
£10.99
David's Bookshop Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper
£9.99
David's Bookshop Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant
£9.99
David's Bookshop Johnson at 10: The Inside Story: The Bestselling Political Biography of 2023 by Anthony Seldon & Raymond Newell
£12.99
David's Bookshop But What Can I Do? : Why Politics Has Gone So Wrong, and How You Can Help Fix It by Alastair Campbell
£10.99
David's Bookshop Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall
£9.99
David's Bookshop Killing Thatcher: The IRA, the Manhunt and the Long War on the Crown by Rory Carroll
£10.99
David's Bookshop Beyond the Wall: East Germany, 1949-1990 by Katja Hoyer
£12.99
David's Bookshop How Westminster Works...and Why It Doesn't by Ian Dunt
£10.99
David's Bookshop Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema by Andrey Tarkovsky
£27.99
David's Bookshop Role Models by John Waters
£12.99
David's Bookshop Lynch on Lynch by David Lynch
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Legend of Mad Max by Ian Nathan
£25.00
