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 Four Questions About Violence: Insights from a Forensic Psychiatrist by Gwen Adshead
£9.99
David's Bookshop National Trust - Britain's Folklore Year
£12.99
David's Bookshop Menolicious: Eat Your Way to a Better Menopause by Mariella Frostrup & Belles Berry
£22.00
David's Bookshop Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli (SIGNED, PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Crochet Snails and Mushroom Sprites by Megan Lapp
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop A Very British Christmas by Rob Temple
£12.99
David's Bookshop Eat Your Age by Dr. Ian K. Smith
£10.99 £9.90
David's Bookshop Upgrade: The No-Bullsh*t Guide to Levelling Up Your Life by Paul Mort
£10.99 £9.90
David's Bookshop Rhyme and Reason by Mark Forsyth
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Life You Want by Adam Phillips
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop On Morrison by Namwali Serpell
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard
£12.99 £11.70
David's Bookshop Human Capital: The Tragedy of the Education Commons by Guy Standing
£10.99 £9.90
David's Bookshop Radical Cartography: What Maps Tell Us About Who We Are by William Rankin
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Secret Painter by Joe Tucker
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mother Mary Comes to Me by Arundhati Roy (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Indignity: A Life Reimagined by Lea Ypi (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox
£25.00
David's Bookshop Winter by Val McDermid (SIGNED, PRE-ORDER)
£16.99
David's Bookshop Winter by Val McDermid
£16.99
David's Bookshop The Money-Saving Gardener Containers: How to Create a Year-round Container Garden for Less by Anya Lautenbach
£16.99 £13.60
David's Bookshop The Thrifty Gardener: Reduce waste, spend wisely by Mark Lane
£18.00 £16.20
David's Bookshop A Year of Cut Flowers: Colour and Joy for All Seasons by Sarah Raven
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Give it a Grow: Simple Projects to Nurture Food, Flowers and Wildlife in any Outdoor Space by Martha Swales
£18.99
David's Bookshop Life with Flowers: Inspiration and Lessons from the Garden by Frances Palmer
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Ikebana: The Art and Beauty of Flower Arranging by Frederic Girard
£50.00
David's Bookshop Jane Packer’s Flower Course by Jane Packer
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Life in Bloom: Grow, Gather & Arrange Seasonal Flowers by Graeme Corbett
£22.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Floramama: From Garden to Bouquet, Growing Flowers for Market by Chloe Roy
£28.99 £28.00
David's Bookshop Cut Flowers: Bloom Gardener's Guide: Prepare the ground, sow seed, nurture, harvest, fill your vases by Celestina Robertson
£12.99 £11.00
David's Bookshop The Modern Flower Press: Preserving the Beauty of Nature by Melissa Richardson & Amy Fielding
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Pansies: How to Grow, Reimagine, and Create Beauty with Pansies and Violas by Brenna Estrada
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Sweet Pea School: Growing & Arranging the Garden’s Most Romantic Blooms by Marryn Mathis
£21.99 £20.00
David's Bookshop The Blackbird's Song & Other Wonders of Nature: A year-round guide to connecting with the natural world by Miles Richardson
£10.99
David's Bookshop A Visual Feast: Ingredients That Make a Home by Jono Fleming
£35.00 £31.50
David's Bookshop The English House: A History in Eight Buildings by Dan Cruickshank (SIGNED, PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Dear England: Lessons on Leadership by Gareth Southgate (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop One Aladdin Two Lamps by Jeanette Winterson (SIGNED, PRE-ORDER)
£18.99
David's Bookshop Rick Stein's Christmas: Recipes, Memories & Stories for the Festive Season by Rick Stein (SIGNED)
£28.00
David's Bookshop How To Live An Artful Life: 366 Inspirations from Artists on how to Bring Creativity to Your Everyday by Katy Hessel (SIGNED)
£16.99
David's Bookshop How To Live An Artful Life: 366 Inspirations from Artists on how to Bring Creativity to Your Everyday by Katy Hessel
£16.99
David's Bookshop Night Life: Walking Britain’s wild landscapes after dark by John Lewis-Stempel (SIGNED)
£12.99
David's Bookshop Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths that Shaped Europe by Janina Ramirez (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Don’t Burn Anyone at the Stake Today: (and other lessons from history about living through an information crisis) by Naomi Alderman (SIGNED, PRE-ORDER)
£16.99
David's Bookshop Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts by Margaret Atwood (SIGNED)
£30.00
David's Bookshop Home by India Knight (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Little Woodchucks: Offerman Workshop’s Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery by Nick Offerman (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Little Woodchucks: Offerman Workshop’s Guide to Tools and Tomfoolery by Nick Offerman
£25.00
