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Bestselling Non-Fiction
Our current topsellers in non-fiction
David's Bookshop The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (SIGNED INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION)
£35.00
David's Bookshop Enough Said by Alan Bennett
£25.00
David's Bookshop London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe
£22.00
David's Bookshop The English House: A History in Eight Buildings by Dan Cruickshank
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Lost Folk: From the Forgotten Past to the Emerging Future of Folk by Lally MacBeth
£20.00
David's Bookshop Famesick by Lena Dunham
£18.99
David's Bookshop The North Road by Rob Cowen
£11.99
David's Bookshop John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie
£12.99
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
£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 Fictional Selves by Kyle MacLachlan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
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)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Happy, Thank you. More, Please by Kyla Cobbler (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Castle by Jon Ronson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£20.00
All Paperback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch
£13.99
David's Bookshop Reframing Blackness: What’s Black about “History of Art”? by Alayo Akinkugbe
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Courage To Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
£12.99
David's Bookshop Night Vision: In search of the true dark by Jean Sprackland
£12.99
David's Bookshop Daring to be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World by Sudhir Hazareesingh
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Stuff of History: A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People by Steven Moore
£10.99
David's Bookshop In Shackleton's Footsteps: A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic by Henry Worsley
£12.99
All Hardback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop Softly, as I Leave You by Priscilla Presley
£25.00
David's Bookshop Gio: Taking the Lead by Giovanni Pernice (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop One More Round: Exploring the Best of Britain's Pubs by Jonny Garrett (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (SIGNED INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION)
£35.00
David's Bookshop Happy Ever After: My final journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£17.99
David's Bookshop Travels with Agatha Christie by David Suchet
£30.00
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
David's Bookshop These Wild English: A family, a class, a country on fire by Nicola Wilding
£20.00
David's Bookshop The People's Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross
£25.00
David's Bookshop You Had to Be There: An Odyssey Through Noughties London Clubland by Jodie Harsh
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mind Over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd by Storm Thorgerson
£30.00
David's Bookshop Humans: The Evolution of a Species (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing (SIGNED)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Crucible of Light: Islam and Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century by Elizabeth Drayson
£14.99
David's Bookshop An Expert Witness: Forensic Science on Trial by Professor Sue Black
£22.00
New Paperback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince
£10.99
David's Bookshop John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie
£12.99
David's Bookshop How Animals Heal Us by Jay Griffiths
£11.99
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 The Twelve Songs of Christmas by Bob Stanley (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£14.99
David's Bookshop Proper Home Cooking by Si King (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Pay Attention by Laura Kuenssberg
£25.00
David's Bookshop Grand: The Autobiography of Gromit: as told to Nick Park by Nick Park & Gromit (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop My Dogs and Me by Matt Baker (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop The Talisman of Happiness by Ada Boni
£45.00 £39.99
David's Bookshop The Full English: The Ways We Eat and Why by Lewis Bassett
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The World Was a Mess But His Hair Was Perfect: The Last Indie Music Scene 2000-2010 by Janine Warren
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop The Quiet Ear: A Story of Deafness by Raymond Antrobus
£10.99
David's Bookshop Birth of a Culture by Grandmaster Flash
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Frantumaglia: A Writer’s Journey by Elena Ferrante
£10.99
David's Bookshop Howay the lads!: A People's History of Newcastle United by Dan Jackson
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Last Night I Dreamt: A Personal History of the Du Mauriers by Paul de Zulueta
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Fahrenheit-182 by Mark Hoppus
£12.99
David's Bookshop Shadow Before the Flame: The Hindenburg Disaster and the Prelude to War by Catherine Grace Katz
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop In the Realm of the Last Man by Francis Fukuyama
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Night People: How to Be a DJ in ‘90s New York City by Mark Ronson
£11.99
David's Bookshop All In by Peter O'Mahony
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Wireless Operator: The Untold Story of the British Sailor Who Invented the Modern Drug Trade by David Tuch (
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Three Brothers in a Boat: A True Story of Adventure and Purpose Rowing the Pacific by Ewan Maclean, amie Maclean & Lachlan Maclean
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop I Shop, Therefore I Am: The nineties, Harvey Nicks and me by Mary Portas
£10.99
David's Bookshop Plot Twist: A Memoir of a Writing Life by Harlan Coben
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop The House of Cromwell: Power, Family and the Making of Modern Britain by Miranda Malins
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Radio Free Afghanistan: A Twenty-Year Odyssey for an Independent Voice in Kabul by Saad Mohseni & Jenna Krajeski
£12.99
David's Bookshop No Land to Stand On: Protest, Palestine and Being Unfree in America by Mahmoud Khalil
£16.99 £15.09
David's Bookshop No Way to Run a Country: An Outsider’s Journey into the Heart of Our Broken Politics by Johnny Mercer
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Catherine & Diana: The inside story of how the Princesses of Wales shaped the modern monarchy by Ingrid Seward
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Vigilauntie: A Memoir - Innit? by Meera Syal
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Fergie: The Lost Tapes: Manchester United’s Greatest Era Retold by Wayne Barton
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop Bad Boy for Life: The Rise and Fall of Sean Combs by Cheyenne Roundtree
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop All About My Mother by Rachael Stirling
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Shop Different: How Retail Revealed Apple’s Genius by Ron Johnson
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop A Bigger Life by Louise O’Neill
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Man & Dog: A Love Story by Tony Parsons
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Yoko by David Sheff
£12.99
David's Bookshop One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This by Omar El Akkad
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
£12.99
David's Bookshop Somewhere, a Boy and a Bear: A Biography of A. A. Milne and Winnie-the-Pooh by Gyles Brandreth
£12.99
David's Bookshop Totem: The Untold Story of Sculpture by Jo Baring
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop Cat On The Road To Findout: The Official Autobiography by Yusuf/Cat Stevens
£14.99
David's Bookshop Rhyme and Reason by Mark Forsyth
£10.99
David's Bookshop Boglands: The Hidden World of Earth's Most Extraordinary Ecosystems by Merritt Turetsky
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop These Wild English: A family, a class, a country on fire by Nicola Wilding
£20.00
David's Bookshop Secrets by Bob Woodward
£25.20
David's Bookshop Shaken: The Rush to Execute an Innocent Man by John Grisham
£25.00
David's Bookshop Pay Attention by Laura Kuenssberg
£25.00
David's Bookshop The People's Emperor: The Unlikely Rise and Spectacular Fall of Napoleon III by Edward Shawcross
£25.00
David's Bookshop You Had to Be There: An Odyssey Through Noughties London Clubland by Jodie Harsh
£10.99
David's Bookshop Mind Over Matter: The Images of Pink Floyd by Storm Thorgerson
£30.00
David's Bookshop Grand: The Autobiography of Gromit: as told to Nick Park by Nick Park & Gromit (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop My Dogs and Me by Matt Baker (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Life on the Farm: Resilience, family and the realities of a farming life by Harriet Cowan
£20.00
