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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
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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

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David's Bookshop Reading the Waves by Lidia Yuknavitch
£13.99
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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
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David's Bookshop Night Vision: In search of the true dark by Jean Sprackland
£12.99
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David's Bookshop Daring to be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World by Sudhir Hazareesingh
£14.99
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David's Bookshop The Stuff of History: A Curated Compendium of Curious Objects and Forgotten People by Steven Moore
£10.99
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David's Bookshop In Shackleton's Footsteps: A Return to the Heart of the Antarctic by Henry Worsley
£12.99
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David's Bookshop The Stolen Crown by Tracy Borman
£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
David's Bookshop Fictional Selves by Kyle MacLachlan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00

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