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 Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (SIGNED INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION)

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 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 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 The Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman

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 The Book of Birds: A Field Guide to Wonder and Loss by Robert Macfarlane & Jackie Morris (SIGNED INDEPENDENT BOOKSHOP EDITION)

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 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 Crucible of Light: Islam and Europe from the 8th to the 21st Century by Elizabeth Drayson

David's Bookshop An Expert Witness: Forensic Science on Trial by Professor Sue Black

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 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

David's Bookshop Grand: The Autobiography of Gromit: as told to Nick Park by Nick Park & Gromit (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

David's Bookshop My Dogs and Me by Matt Baker (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)

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David's Bookshop Auto Biography: An A-Z Expose of Cars by Mat Watson

David's Bookshop Pet Shop Boys Volume: The complete visual record by Chris Heath & Philip Hoare

David's Bookshop Where Tourists Seldom Tread: Postcards from Bypassed Britain by Chris Moss

David's Bookshop The Art of Opposition: On Hope, Resilience and Creative Expression Beyond the Mainstream by Courttia Newland

David's Bookshop What a Time to be Alive!: Scenes from a Strange Age by Marina Hyde

David's Bookshop Can't Get You Out Of My Head: In Search of Kylie by Michael Cragg

David's Bookshop John McGahern: A Writing Life by Frank Shovlin

David's Bookshop Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by George Ewart Evans

David's Bookshop Harvest by Minette Batters

David's Bookshop The Wisdom of Farmers: What We Can Learn from the Land by John Connell

David's Bookshop Eat Your Garden: Edimentals as a Beautiful, Low-Effort Way to Grow Food by Harry Holding

David's Bookshop The Art of Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz

David's Bookshop Life Inside A Cottage: Interior inspiration from today's cottage dwellers by Nell Card & Rachel Vere

David's Bookshop Flow Hive's Book of Bees and Beekeeping by Stuart Anderson & Cedar Anderson

David's Bookshop The Nature of Decorating: Interiors Inspired by the Natural World by Jenny Rose-Innes

David's Bookshop Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain by Peter Fiennes

David's Bookshop Earthworks: Land and Nature in Uncertain Times by Karen Lloyd

David's Bookshop Sister Nature: The Education of an Optimistic Beekeeper by Jess de Boer

David's Bookshop The Running Hare: The Secret Life of Farmland by John Lewis-Stempel

David's Bookshop Upland: The Strange History and Vital Future of Britain’s Mountains by Ed Douglas

David's Bookshop Nature's Echo: Harnessing ancient feedback loops to heal a changing planet by Thomas Crowther

David's Bookshop Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls by Fred Pearce