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 My Autobiography by Charles Chaplin
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan by Tom Shone
£25.00
David's Bookshop Women vs Hollywood: The Fall and Rise of Women in Film by Helen O'Hara
£10.99
David's Bookshop Hollywood Wants to Kill You: The Peculiar Science of Death in the Movies by Michael Brooks & Rick Edwards
£10.99
David's Bookshop Colours of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes by Charles Bramesco
£18.99
David's Bookshop Audrey in Paris by Caroline Young
£16.99
David's Bookshop Managing Expectations by Minnie Driver
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Pocketful of Happiness by Richard E. Grant
£9.99
David's Bookshop Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke
£10.99
David's Bookshop Erotic Vagrancy: Everything about Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor by Roger Lewis
£12.99
David's Bookshop Rambling Man: My Life on the Road by Billy Connolly
£10.99
David's Bookshop Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor by Matthew McConaughey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries by Alan Rickman
£12.99
David's Bookshop Scream Queen: A memoir by Yvette Fielding
£22.00
David's Bookshop Eve: How The Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution by Cat Bohannon
£12.99
David's Bookshop Animal Liberation Now by Peter Singer
£12.99
David's Bookshop Right Kind of Wrong: How the Best Teams Use Failure to Succeed by Amy Edmondson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Ravenous: How to get ourselves and our planet into shape by Henry Dimbleby
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Chief Shepherdess: Lessons in Life, Love and Farming by Zoe Colville
£10.99
David's Bookshop Cold-Hardy Fruits and Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape by Allyson Levy & Scott Serrano
£30.00
David's Bookshop Italy in a Wineglass: The Taste of History by Marc Millon
£20.00
David's Bookshop Unsuitable: A History of Lesbian Fashion by Eleanor Medhurst
£25.00
David's Bookshop Read This if You Want to Take Great Photographs by Henry Carroll
£14.99
David's Bookshop You Will Get Through This Night by Daniel Howell
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Seaside: England's Love Affair by Madeleine Bunting
£10.99
David's Bookshop How to Fish by Christopher Yates
£14.99
David's Bookshop Two Wheels Good: The History and Mystery of the Bicycle by Jody Rosen
£10.99
David's Bookshop Test Match Special: Tall Tales – The Good The Bad and The Hilarious from the Commentary Box by Jonathan Agnew & Phil Tufnell
£14.99
David's Bookshop BBC Sports Report: A Celebration of the World's Longest-Running Sports Radio Programme: Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023 by Pat Murphy
£12.99
David's Bookshop Berserker!: The deeply moving and brilliantly funny memoir from one of Britain's most beloved comedians by Adrian Edmondson
£10.99
David's Bookshop How We Fish: The Love, Life and Joy of the Riverbank by Paul Whitehouse & John Bailey
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Savage Storm: The Heroic True Story of One of the Least told Campaigns of WW2 by James Holland
£10.99
David's Bookshop Space: A thrilling human history by Britain's beloved astronaut Tim Peake by Tim Peake
£10.99
David's Bookshop Faster Than A Cannonball: 1995 and All That by Dylan Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground by Dylan Jones
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Four Horsemen: Food and Wine for Good Times from the Brooklyn Restaurant by Nick Curtola
£30.00
David's Bookshop Hope In The Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
£10.99
David's Bookshop Beastly: The Epic 40,000-Year History of Animals and Us by Keggie Carew
£10.99
David's Bookshop UpCycled Beauty: Transform Everyday Ingredients into No-Waste Beauty Products by UpCircle
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Green Camping Book: How to camp sustainably, ethically and responsibly by Martin Dorey
£23.00
David's Bookshop The Rest is History by Dr Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook
£10.99
David's Bookshop Windswept: Life, Nature and Deep Time in the Scottish Highlands by Annie Worsley
£10.99
David's Bookshop Overleaf: An Album of British Trees by Susan Ogilvy
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape by Tiffany Francis-Baker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Uprooting : From the Caribbean to the Countryside – Finding Home in an English Garden by Marchelle Farrell
£10.99
