Non-Fiction

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.

David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
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David's Bookshop Art Cure: The science of how the arts transform our health by Daisy Fancourt
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David's Bookshop Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska
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David's Bookshop Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran
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David's Bookshop Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
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David's Bookshop Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The lives and loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell
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David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
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David's Bookshop Enough Said by Alan Bennett

David's Bookshop London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe

David's Bookshop The English House: A History in Eight Buildings by Dan Cruickshank

David's Bookshop The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk by Lally MacBeth

David's Bookshop Famesick by Lena Dunham

David's Bookshop The North Road by Rob Cowen

David's Bookshop John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie

David's Bookshop A Year of Living Curiously: 365 Things Really Worth Knowing by Beth Coates & Elizabeth Foley

David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet

David's Bookshop Art Cure: The science of how the arts transform our health by Daisy Fancourt

David's Bookshop Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War by Jane Rogoyska

David's Bookshop Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century by Ece Temelkuran

David's Bookshop Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy

David's Bookshop Artists, Siblings, Visionaries: The lives and loves of Gwen and Augustus John by Judith Mackrell

David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet

David's Bookshop Happy Ever After: My final journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Fictional Selves by Kyle MacLachlan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop How I've Tried to Change the World: By Walking Down the Middle of the Street Shouting by Alexei Sayle (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Happy, Thank you. More, Please by Kyla Cobbler (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop The Castle by Jon Ronson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams

David's Bookshop Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch

David's Bookshop Reframing Blackness: What’s Black about “History of Art”? by Alayo Akinkugbe

David's Bookshop The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga

David's Bookshop Night Vision: In search of the true dark by Jean Sprackland

David's Bookshop Daring to be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World by Sudhir Hazareesingh

David's Bookshop The Stuff of History: A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People by Steven Moore

David's Bookshop In Shackleton's Footsteps: A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic by Henry Worsley

David's Bookshop Softly, as I Leave You by Priscilla Presley

David's Bookshop Gio: Taking the Lead by Giovanni Pernice (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop One More Round: Exploring the Best of Britain's Pubs by Jonny Garrett (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Happy Ever After: My final journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Travels with Agatha Christie by David Suchet

David's Bookshop Things I Took from the Dark: The Museum of Me by Reece Shearsmith (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Fictional Selves by Kyle MacLachlan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop The Polyester Book of (Bad) Taste by Ione Gamble

David's Bookshop Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams

David's Bookshop London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop These Wild English: A family, a class, a country on fire by Nicola Wilding

David's Bookshop The People's Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross

David's Bookshop You Had to Be There: An Odyssey Through Noughties London Clubland by Jodie Harsh

David's Bookshop Mind Over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd by Storm Thorgerson

David's Bookshop Humans: The Evolution of a Species (SIGNED)

David's Bookshop The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (SIGNED)

David's Bookshop Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince

David's Bookshop John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie

David's Bookshop How Animals Heal Us by Jay Griffiths

David's Bookshop This Way Up by Map Men

David's Bookshop The Ayatollah's Gaze: A Memoir of the Forbidden and the Fabulous by Majid Parsa

David's Bookshop The Heart-Shaped Tin: Love, Loss and Kitchen Objects by Bee Wilson

David's Bookshop Over the Water: Essays on Islands

David's Bookshop Upon a White Horse by Peter Ross

David's Bookshop Games of My Life by Alex Ferguson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop The Twelve Songs of Christmas by Bob Stanley (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Proper Home Cooking by Si King (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Pay Attention by Laura Kuenssberg (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

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David's Bookshop Does Anyone Have Any Idea...?: Unpublished Letters to the Daily Telegraph

David's Bookshop The Ornithologists' Library: The Books that Unlocked Our Knowledge of Birds by Charlie Bingham

David's Bookshop Europe in 7 1/2 Chapters: The Shortest Introduction to the World's Oldest and Newest Continent by Timothy Garton Ash

David's Bookshop The Age of Confiscation: Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World by Nicholas Mulder

David's Bookshop Forgotten Women by Zing Tsjeng

David's Bookshop The Wordspotter's Guide: Etymological Adventures Through the English Language by Olivia Swarthout

David's Bookshop Polar War: Submarines, Spies and the Struggle for Power in a Melting Arctic by Kenneth R. Rosen

David's Bookshop Muslim Europe: A Journey in Search of a Fourteen Hundred Year History by Tharik Hussain

David's Bookshop 30 Days in the Viking Age: Will You Survive? by Kirsten Wolf

David's Bookshop Persiana One by Sabrina Ghayour (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Letters to Our Sons by Stephen Graham (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop Letters to Our Sons by Stephen Graham

David's Bookshop The Flower Farmer's Year: Growing Flowers for Pleasure and Profit by Georgie Newbery

David's Bookshop The Power and the Glory: The Country House Before the Great War by Adrian Tinniswood

David's Bookshop The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Bulbs

David's Bookshop The Kew Gardener's Guide to Growing Trees

David's Bookshop RHS The Garden Almanac 2027

David's Bookshop A Country Style by Harriet Thistlethwayte

David's Bookshop The Creative Gardener: Inspiring People, Remarkable Gardens by Stephanie Mahon

David's Bookshop Edimentals: Edible Plants to Grow & Enjoy by Huw Richards

David's Bookshop Home by India Knight

David's Bookshop The Garden Book