Rachel from David's Bookshop gave the following suggestions for you to treat others to - or yourself!
Non-fiction books that have sold well recently:
- Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
- The Almanac by Lia Leendertz
- Is a River Alive? by Robert Macfarlane (short-listed for Wainwright Prize for conservation writing)
Novels that have sold well recently:
- The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden (Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction, short-listed for the Booker Prize)
- There are Rivers in the Sky by Elif Shafak
- You are Here by David Nicholls
Staff favourites this year (fiction and non-fiction):
- Assassin's Apprentice by Robin Hobb
- The Silver Book by Olivia Laing
- Greenteeth by Molly O'Neill
- The Witching Hour - a collection
- Craftland by James Fox
- The Story of Tudor Art by Christina Faraday
Childrens' Books
- The Lone Husky by Hannah Gold
- Fia and the Last Snow Deer by Eilish Fisher (winner of the 2025 Junior Book Award)
- An Anthology of Christmas - a collection
- The Forever Bear by Lu Fraser
- A Treasury of Nursery Rhymes and Poems
- Wilding by Isabella Tree (Winner of 2025 British Book Award for Children's Non-Fiction)
Children's books - signed, special limited editions available at David's
- The Wind in the Willows
- The Secret Garden
- Heidi
Rachel's Winter Favourite:
- The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas
Games that have been best-sellers this year
- Carcassonne
- Azul
- Ticket to Ride
- Hues and Cues
- Wavelength
