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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 Eva and the Island: Life at the Loneliest Farmhouse in the World by Tim Ecott
£15.99
David's Bookshop To Be Young, Gifted and Black: Longlisted for the 2026 Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction by Kadiatu Kanneh-Mason
£10.99
David's Bookshop All the Way to the River: My Story of Love, Loss and Liberation by Elizabeth Gilbert
£10.99
David's Bookshop The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic by Malcolm Gladwell (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop George Harrison The Third Eye: Deluxe Edition (PRE-ORDER)
£500.00
David's Bookshop Humans: The Evolution of a Species (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Love, Vito: My Story of Food, Family and Finding Home by Vito Coppola (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£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 Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Remarkable Men Who Solved An Incredible Second World War Mystery by Robert Kurson
£10.99
David's Bookshop Untitled: The unmissable new book from the England rugby legend by Lewis Moody (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop No Place Like Home: Creating timeless spaces, made for living by Jojo Barr
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop A Garden Love Story: The Restoration of Belcombe Court’s Historic Gardens by Paul Weiland
£40.00 £36.00
David's Bookshop A Year in the Garden by Matthew Rice
£25.00 £22.50
David's Bookshop A Year at the Parsonage: The Story of a House & Garden by Ben Pentreath, Charlie McCormick & Jasper Conran
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Architects' Houses by Dominic Bradbury
£69.95 £62.95
David's Bookshop Collins Gardener’s Bible
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop The Sustainable Gardener: Simple strategies and solutions for eco-conscious growers by Angela Youngman
£20.00
David's Bookshop RSPB Pocket Garden Birdwatch by Mark Ward
£9.99
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 Witchland: A Tale of Witch Hunting and War in Seventeenth-Century Britain by Marion Gibson
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop An Expert Witness: Forensic Science on Trial by Professor Sue Black
£22.00
David's Bookshop The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M. Bender & Alex Hanna
£12.99
David's Bookshop Stranded In The Future by Robyn Hitchcock (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Stranded In The Future by Robyn Hitchcock
£25.00
David's Bookshop Blow by Blow by Brad Tolinski & Chris Gill
£30.00 £27.00
David's Bookshop Arthur: A New Life by Amy Jeffs (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£30.00
David's Bookshop Ricky Hatton: The Light That Never Goes Out by Adam Smith (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Regina: A New History of Royal Women by Kate Williams (SIGNED)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Black Coffee and Red Lipstick: Notes on living by Alexandra Shulman (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Fairytales for Privileged Children: Little Red Riding Hood Blows Her Trust Fund & Other Premium Tales by Daniel Foxx (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£14.99
David's Bookshop Firing Earth: An Unexpected History of Pots and Potters by Keith Brymer Jones (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£20.00
David's Bookshop Softly, as I Leave You by Priscilla Presley (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£12.99
David's Bookshop 31 Inventions that Built Our World by Jonn Elledge (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The History of Mankind in Its Entirety (Abridged): An Unsupervised PHD by Fin Taylor
£22.00 £19.80
David's Bookshop The Elegant Hustler: My Life in Adventures by Celia Imrie (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Things I Took from the Dark: The Museum of Me by Reece Shearsmith (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Gio: Taking the Lead by Giovanni Pernice (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Teenage Diaries of a Stand-Up Comedian by Jon Richardson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop The Beginning Comes After the End: Notes on a World of Change by Rebecca Solnit
£14.99
David's Bookshop The Times Sir: The Year in Letters (2026)
£9.99
David's Bookshop Three Years On Fire by Andrey Kurkov
£18.99
David's Bookshop The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet by Yi-Ling Liu
£22.00
David's Bookshop The Escape from Kabul: A True Story of Sisterhood and Defiance by Karen Bartlett
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Elements of Power: A Story of War, Technology and the Dirtiest Supply Chain on Earth by Nicolas Niarchos
£25.00
David's Bookshop Israel: What Went Wrong? by Omer Bartov
£20.00
