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Bestselling Non-Fiction
Our current topsellers in non-fiction
David's Bookshop London Falling by Patrick Radden Keefe (SIGNED)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Careless People: A story of where I used to work by Sarah Wynn-Williams
£10.99
David's Bookshop Odyssey by Stephen Fry
£10.99
David's Bookshop Swan Song by Charles Spencer
£28.00 £22.00
David's Bookshop Mother Mary Comes To Me by Arundhati Roy
£12.99
David's Bookshop Moonlight Express: Around the World By Night Train by Monisha Rajesh
£10.99
David's Bookshop This Way Up by Map Men
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan by Lyse Doucet
£25.00 £20.00
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.
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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 Games of My Life by Alex Ferguson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£40.00
David's Bookshop Fictional Selves by Kyle MacLachlan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Firing Earth: An Unexpected History of Pots and Potters by Keith Brymer Jones (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£20.00
David's Bookshop The Cauldron by Simon Sebag Montefiore (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
All Paperback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
£10.99
David's Bookshop Eviction: A Social History of Rent by Jessica Field
£12.99
David's Bookshop Shapeshifters: A History by John B. Kachuba
£10.99
David's Bookshop On My Watch: Leading NATO in a Time of War by Jens Stoltenberg
£12.99
David's Bookshop Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties by Robert Elms
£12.99
David's Bookshop Notes to John by Joan Didion
£10.99
All Hardback Non-Fiction
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David's Bookshop Happy Ever After: My final journey with Gone Fishing by Ted the Dog (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£17.99
David's Bookshop Gio: Taking the Lead by Giovanni Pernice (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Softly, as I Leave You by Priscilla Presley
£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 Games of My Life by Alex Ferguson (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£40.00
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
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David's Bookshop Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave: My Cemetery Journeys by Mariana Enriquez
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Ghost of the Mountains: Unravelling the Secrets of the Snow Leopard by Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi
£20.00
David's Bookshop Fractured France: A Journey Through a Divided Nation by OBE Andrew Hussey
£10.99
David's Bookshop Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners: The British women who asserted their right to run by Katie Holmes
£22.00
David's Bookshop Mapping Britain's Railways: The Design History of a Nation on Track by Mark Ovenden & Andrew Smithers
£25.00
David's Bookshop These Divided Isles: Britain and Ireland, Past and Future by Philip Stephens
£12.99
David's Bookshop Searching for My Slave Roots: From Guyana’s Sugar Plantations to Cambridge by Malik Al Nasir
£10.99
David's Bookshop Progress: A History of Humanity’s Worst Idea by Samuel Miller McDonald
£10.99
New Paperback Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop How Animals Heal Us by Jay Griffiths
£11.99
David's Bookshop Normally Weird and Weirdly Normal: My Adventures in Neurodiversity by Robin Ince (SIGNED)
£10.99
David's Bookshop John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie
£12.99
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 ALL ABOARD!: Tales from a Yorkshire Steam Railway by Paul 'Piglet' Middleton (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop One Helluva Ride by Michael Douglas (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop Hard Truth: Investigations That Shook the World – and Why They Matter Now by Stephen Sackur (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£25.00
David's Bookshop First Born Daughter: Having It All and Doing It Anyway by Katherine Ryan (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
David's Bookshop Decline and Falling Over by Jo Brand (SIGNED PRE-ORDER)
£22.00
Non-Fiction
David's Bookshop The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World by Malcolm Gaskill
£10.99
David's Bookshop Femina by Janina Ramirez
£12.99
David's Bookshop Lost Realms: Histories of Britain from the Romans to the Vikings by Thomas Williams
£10.99
David's Bookshop Love That Journey For Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt's Creek by Emily Garside
£7.50
David's Bookshop BFFs: The Radical Potential of Female Friendship by Anahit Behrooz
£7.50
David's Bookshop Now Go: On Grief and Studio Ghibli by Karl Thomas-Smith
£7.50
David's Bookshop Good Pop, Bad Pop by Jarvis Cocker
£12.99
David's Bookshop The Swimmer: The Wild Life of Roger Deakin by Patrick Barkham
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Whole Picture by Alice Procter
£12.99
David's Bookshop Space Crone by Ursula K. Le Guin
£13.99
David's Bookshop Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art by Lauren Elkin
£12.99
David's Bookshop Poor Little Sick Girls by Ione Gamble
£10.99
David's Bookshop No Modernism Without Lesbians by Diana Souhami
£9.99
David's Bookshop This Dark Country: Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century by Rebecca Birrell
£10.99
David's Bookshop The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits by Jennifer Higgie
£10.99
