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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 Down Burrow Lane: Life and Love on the Farm by Michael Morpurgo (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Autumn by Kate Mosse (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£16.99
David's Bookshop I Shoot Rock Stars: The Wild Adventures of a Music Video Director by Tim Pope (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Fox Under the Moon: Finding Light in the Darkness by Stacey McNeill (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Agatha Christie Cure: What Reading the Queen of Crime Taught Me About Life by Cathy Rentzenbrink
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Story Telling: A Masterclass in Crafting Stories by Isabel Allende
£16.99 £15.09
David's Bookshop Till I Die: Why Football Means Everything (Even When It Shouldn’t) by Damien Pearse
£16.99 £15.09
David's Bookshop Kolkhoz by Emmanuel Carrere
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Fanzine: The story of football's alternative press by Daniel Gray
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop American Scoundrel by Kai Bird
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows...: Common Knowledge and the Science of Harmony, Hypocrisy and Outrage by Steven Pinker
£12.99
David's Bookshop In the Company of Sheep: From Dartmoor to Shetland by Polly Pullar
£12.99
David's Bookshop Hack Yourself Healthy by Julia Bradbury
£12.99
David's Bookshop I Think My Therapist Hates Me: A Memoir by Chris Olsen
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Closer to Things: Drawing Practices as Spatial Research by Jesse LeCavalier, Charlotte Malterre-Barthes & Deane Simpson
£45.00 £40.50
David's Bookshop A Short History of Japan by Christopher Harding
£12.99
David's Bookshop What Should My Children Do?: How to Flourish in the Age of AI by Daniel Susskind
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Trade World: The Ties That Bound Our Past and Could Unravel Our Future by Ed Conway
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Christian Almanac: A Year in Faith by Gordon McKechnie
£12.99
David's Bookshop Inferno: 12 Battles of the World Wars That Shaped the 20th Century by Dan Hill
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop This Is About Running, This Is Not About Running: Lessons for Between and Beyond the Start and Finish Line by Chris Bennett
£18.99 £17.09
David's Bookshop You Are the Parent: Becoming the Calm, Confident Leader Your Child Needs by Dr Siggie Cohen
£16.99
David's Bookshop Fire: Why We are Drawn to the Flame by Richard Skrein
£18.99
David's Bookshop Battleaxe: A Memoir by Dame Margaret Hodge
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop The Pen: A Human History by Simon Garfield
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop JFK: Public, Private, Secret by J.Randy Taraborrelli
£14.99
David's Bookshop Palestine: A Short History by Rashid I. Khalidi
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Future Starts With Us by Gordon Brown
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop HOPE: The Autobiography by Pope Francis
£12.99
David's Bookshop Earth Shapers: How Humans Mastered Geography and Remade the World by Maxim Samson
£12.99
David's Bookshop Crick: A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain by Professor Matthew Cobb
£14.99
David's Bookshop Anita Brookner: Art and Life by Hermione Lee
£28.00 £25.20
David's Bookshop Nobody Broke Your Heart: An Intimate Biography of Elliott Smith by Jamie Fisher
£20.00 £18.00
David's Bookshop Monsterland: A Journey Around the World’s Dark Imagination by Nicholas Jubber
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Dark Powers of Tolkien: DELUXE EDITION by David Day
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Paranoid Style in American Politics by Richard Hofstadter
£12.99
David's Bookshop Joe Marler vs The World by Joe Marler (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Plunder by Max Hastings (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Fran Lebowitz Reader: The Sunday Times Bestseller by Fran Lebowitz
£10.99
David's Bookshop Get Back: The boys who became The Beatles by Hunter Davies (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Middleland: Dispatches from the Borders by Rory Stewart (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£12.99
David's Bookshop Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing Trades by James Fox (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£12.99
David's Bookshop All the Wrong Moves: How Three Catastrophic Decisions and Years of Sh*tshow Politics Led to Trump – and How We Find a Way Out by Anthony Scaramucci (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Happy Ever After: My final journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£17.99
David's Bookshop Pea Green Boat by Stewart Lee (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£16.99
David's Bookshop How to Be Hopeful by Caitlin Moran (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
