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Bestselling Non-Fiction
Our current topsellers in non-fiction
David's Bookshop London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams
£10.99
David's Bookshop Odyssey by Stephen Fry
£10.99
David's Bookshop Swan Song by Charles Spencer
£28.00 £22.00
David's Bookshop Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
£12.99
David's Bookshop Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train by Monisha Rajesh
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Way Up by Map Men
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
£25.00 £20.00
The Women's Prize for Non-Fiction Longlist 2026
The Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction celebrates excellence, originality and accessibility in narrative non-fiction written by women. The books on the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction longlist reflect the belief that every woman’s voice has the power to elicit and inspire change. The 16 captivating titles span politics, memoir, science, history, biography, art and more, in an extraordinary, international celebration of women’s writing.
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David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
£25.00 £20.00
David's Bookshop Art Cure: The science of how the arts transform our health by Daisy Fancourt
£22.00
David's Bookshop Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska
£25.00
David's Bookshop Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran
£18.99 £16.99
David's Bookshop Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
£12.99
David's Bookshop Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The lives and loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
£11.99
Coming Soon to Non-Fiction
All of the best non-fiction coming out in 2026
David's Bookshop Happy Ever After: My final journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£17.99
David's Bookshop Games of My Life by Alex Ferguson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£40.00
David's Bookshop Fictional Selves by Kyle MacLachlan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Firing Earth: An Unexpected History of Pots and Potters by Keith Brymer Jones (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Cauldron by Simon Sebag Montefiore (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
All Paperback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
£10.99
David's Bookshop Eviction: A Social History of Rent by Jessica Field
£12.99
David's Bookshop Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba
£10.99
David's Bookshop On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War by Jens Stoltenberg
£12.99
David's Bookshop Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties by Robert Elms
£12.99
David's Bookshop Notes to John by Joan Didion
£10.99
All Hardback Non-Fiction
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David's Bookshop Happy Ever After: My final journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£17.99
David's Bookshop Gio: Taking the Lead by Giovanni Pernice (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Softly, as I Leave You by Priscilla Presley
£25.00
David's Bookshop One More Round: Exploring the Best of Britain's Pubs by Jonny Garrett (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£12.99
David's Bookshop Games of My Life by Alex Ferguson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£40.00
David's Bookshop Things I Took from the Dark: The Museum of Me by Reece Shearsmith (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
New Non-Fiction
The best new releases in non-fiction
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David's Bookshop Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Ghost of the Mountains: Unravelling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
£20.00
David's Bookshop Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation by OBE Andrew Hussey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners: The British women who asserted their right to run by Katie Holmes
£22.00
David's Bookshop Mapping Britain's Railways: The Design History of a Nation on Track by Mark Ovenden & Andrew Smithers
£25.00
David's Bookshop These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future by Philip Stephens
£12.99
David's Bookshop Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge by Malik Al Nasir
£10.99
David's Bookshop Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea by Samuel Miller McDonald
£10.99
New Paperback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop How Animals Heal Us by Jay Griffiths
£11.99
David's Bookshop Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince (SIGNED)
£10.99
David's Bookshop John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie
£12.99
David's Bookshop This Way Up by Map Men
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Ayatollah's Gaze: A Memoir of the Forbidden and the Fabulous by Majid Parsa
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects by Bee Wilson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Over the Water: Essays on Islands
£10.99
David's Bookshop Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross
£10.99
Signed Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop ALL ABOARD!: Tales from a Yorkshire Steam Railway by Paul 'Piglet' Middleton (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop One Helluva Ride by Michael Douglas (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Hard Truth: Investigations That Shook the World – and Why They Matter Now by Stephen Sackur (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop First Born Daughter: Having It All and Doing It Anyway by Katherine Ryan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Decline and Falling Over by Jo Brand (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
Non-Fiction
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David's Bookshop Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
£10.99
David's Bookshop Burning Snowflake by Sarah Hall
£10.00
David's Bookshop The Bayeux Tapestry: celebrating the landmark British Museum exhibition
£45.00 £39.99
David's Bookshop Sacred Places of the Ancient World by Philip Matyszak
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Eviction: A Social History of Rent by Jessica Field
£12.99
David's Bookshop Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba
£10.99
David's Bookshop On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War by Jens Stoltenberg
£12.99
David's Bookshop Belonging: A Journey of Love by Sonia Gandhi
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Cinnamon: A History of Taste and Empire by Nira Wickramasinghe
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop They Called Me Renee: The Incredible True Story of a Young WW2 Resistance Fighter in Her Own Words by Ruth Uzrad
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Our Islands' Story by Nigel Biggar & Robert Tombs
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Rogue Heroes: The Making of the Smash-Hit Series
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Flight Nurses’ War: The Women Who Saved Thousands of Lives at Iwo Jima and Okinawa by Leah Garrett
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Take Note: A Nimble History of Shorthand by Andrew Hill
£14.99
David's Bookshop Flying Pianos: The Eccentric Birth of British Aviation by Charles Spicer
£26.00 £23.40
David's Bookshop Napoleon and his Marshals: Victory, Rivalry, Betrayal by Andrew Roberts
£40.00 £36.00
David's Bookshop Swan Song by Charles Spencer
£28.00 £22.00
David's Bookshop David Hockney: An Artist for Life by Paul Morley
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Britain's Slave Traders: A Forgotten History by William A. Pettigrew
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Empire at the Edge of the World: Endurance and Madness in the High Arctic by Giles Milton
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Assassins and Secret Listeners: Britain's Invisible Armies, 1939-45 by Alistair Moffat
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History by Benjamin Moser
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties by Robert Elms
£12.99
David's Bookshop Collapse: A Global History of the Second World War, 1931-1941 by Jonathan Fennell
£30.00
David's Bookshop The Lifesavers: The Trailblazers of the Second World War Who Took Blood into Battle by Roderick Bailey
£25.00
David's Bookshop A Golden World: How the Americas Transformed Renaissance England by Lauren Working
£22.00
David's Bookshop Biological War: A Scenario by Annie Jacobsen
£22.00
David's Bookshop Prodigal by Kayo Chingonyi
£16.99 £15.29
David's Bookshop Whores of Babylon: A New History of Sex Work by Frankie Miren
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop ALL ABOARD!: Tales from a Yorkshire Steam Railway by Paul 'Piglet' Middleton (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop One Helluva Ride by Michael Douglas (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Hard Truth: Investigations That Shook the World – and Why They Matter Now by Stephen Sackur (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Notes to John by Joan Didion
£10.99
David's Bookshop Gardener’s Almanac 2027: A Month-by-Month Guide for Gardening Enthusiasts
£9.00
David's Bookshop The Big Book of Brilliant Quips: The Daft and Hilarious Guide to Quipping from the Co-Hosts of the Chatabix Podcast by Joe Wilkinson & David Earl
£16.99
David's Bookshop First Born Daughter: Having It All and Doing It Anyway by Katherine Ryan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Decline and Falling Over by Jo Brand (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop A History of Britain in 21 Paintings by Alice Loxton (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop My Rangers: How I Changed Scottish Football For Ever by Graeme Souness (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Homemade by Nara Aziza Smith (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop 1967 - The World of Brian Epstein and The Beatles: The address book that defined an era by Gary Kemp & Simon Halfon (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Kew Pocketbooks: Fungi
£8.99
David's Bookshop Fungi Lore: The Myths, Folklore and Magic of Mushrooms by Sally Coulthard
£15.00
David's Bookshop Fungi: The World of Mushrooms
£34.95
David's Bookshop Aliveness: Getting Things Done in an Age of Bewilderment by Oliver Burkeman
£22.00
David's Bookshop Heartbreak Hotel by Alice Haddon & Ruth Field
£10.99
