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 Wintering: The power of rest and retreat in difficult times by Katherine May (SIGNED)
£18.99
David's Bookshop Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance by Yanis Varoufakis (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop 1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History by Andrew Ross Sorkin (SIGNED)
£30.00
David's Bookshop Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found by Andrew Graham Dixon (SIGNED)
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Zorg: A Tale of Greed, Murder and the Abolition of Slavery by Siddharth Kara (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Vagabond by Tim Curry (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Keep Laughing by Chris McCausland
£25.00
David's Bookshop Is That You, Petula?: An Autobiography by Petula Clark (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Dead and Alive by Zadie Smith (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Sno: A History by Sverker Sorlin (SIGNED)
£16.99
David's Bookshop Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm by Charlie Mackesy (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Mark Kermode's Surround Sound: The Stories of Movie Music by Mark Kermode (SIGNED)
£18.99
David's Bookshop La Lucha: Latin American Feminism Today
£14.99
David's Bookshop Lou Reed: The King of New York by Will Hermes
£12.99
David's Bookshop Diddly Squat: The Farmer's Dog by Jeremy Clarkson
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Creatures of Darkness: A Brief Introduction to 100 of the Planet’s Nocturnal Animals by Dani Robertson
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science by Dava Sobel
£9.99
David's Bookshop Iron Maiden: Infinite Dreams: The Official Visual History
£50.00 £45.00
David's Bookshop Moral AI: And How We Get There by Jana Schaich Borg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong & Vincent Conitzer
£10.99
David's Bookshop This is For Everyone by Tim Berners-Lee
£25.00
David's Bookshop How to Winter: Harness Your Mindset to Thrive in Difficult Times by Kari Leibowitz
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Best of Matt 2025
£9.99
David's Bookshop The Little Book of HRT: Your essential guide to hormones and menopause by Dr Ellie Cannon
£9.99
David's Bookshop Ancestral Magic: A Modern Witch’s Guide to Folk Traditions & Reconnection by Frankie Castanea
£16.99
David's Bookshop We Did Ok, Kid: A Memoir by Sir Anthony Hopkins
£25.00
David's Bookshop Burning Down the House: Talking Heads and the New York Scene That Transformed Rock
£28.00 £25.20
David's Bookshop Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Genius Myth: The Dangerous Allure of Rebels, Monsters and Rule-Breakers by Helen Lewis
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Rebel Romanov by Helen Rappaport
£12.99
David's Bookshop War by Bob Woodward
£12.99
David's Bookshop Lateral Cooking by Niki Segnit
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Great Siege of Malta by Marcus Bull
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Devil's Best Trick by Randall Sullivan
£12.99
David's Bookshop Something Wicked: The Lives, Crimes and Deaths of the Pendle Witches by Carol Ann Lee
£10.99
David's Bookshop America Day by Day by Simone de Beauvoir
£12.99
David's Bookshop Rope: How a Bundle of Twisted Fibres Became the Backbone of Civilisation by Tim Queeney
£20.00
David's Bookshop Injury Time: Football in a State of Emergency by David Goldblatt
£22.00
David's Bookshop Africonomics: A History of Western Ignorance by Bronwen Everill
£10.99
David's Bookshop Blame Not the Wind: A Tragedy at Sea. a Cover-Up. One Mother’s Search for Justice. by Shirley Cooklin
£22.00
David's Bookshop Rebel Island: The Incredible History of Taiwan by Jonathan Clements
£12.99
David's Bookshop Dangerous Miracle: A natural history of antibiotics – and how we burned through them by Liam Shaw
£25.00
David's Bookshop Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future by Dan Wang
£25.00
David's Bookshop Three Rivers: The Extraordinary Waterways That Made Europe by Robert Winder
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Last Titans: Churchill and de Gaulle by Richard Vinen
£25.00
David's Bookshop Domination by Alice Roberts
£22.00
David's Bookshop A Short History of the Gaza Strip by Anne Irfan
£18.99
