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  • Not the Camilla We Knew
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    Not the Camilla We Knew

    The mystery of how an ordinary Minnesota girl came to be, briefly, one of the most wanted domestic terrorists in the United StatesBehind every act of domestic terrorism there is someone's child, an average American whose life took a radical turn for...
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    Far More Terrible for Women

    De massa call me and tell me, "Woman, I's pay big money for you, and I's done dat 'cause I wants you to raise me chillum. I's put you to live with Rufus for dat purpose. Now, if you doesn't want whippin' at de stake, you do what I wants." I thinks 'bout...
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    The Man Who Organized Nature
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    The Man Who Organized Nature

    A new biography of Carl Linnaeus, offering a vivid portrait of Linnaeus's life and work.Carl Linnaeus (17071778), known as the father of modern biological taxonomy, formalised and popularised the system of binomial nomenclature used to classify plants...
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    Talaat Pasha
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    Talaat Pasha

    The first English-language biography of the de facto ruler of the late Ottoman Empire and architect of the Armenian GenocideTalaat Pasha (1874-1921) led the triumvirate that ruled the late Ottoman Empire during World War I and is arguably the father of...
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  • Stand Up and Fight
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    Stand Up and Fight

    'A modern classic...Absolutely riveting and frequently moving.' - The Telegraph'Among the best books ever written on Irish sport.' - Sunday Tribune'Brilliant...Stand Up and Fight is the definitive account. It...
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    Mountain Guru
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    Mountain Guru

    Doug Scott was a legend among mountaineers. His expeditions, undertaken over a period of five decades, are unparalleled achievements. This book describes the extraordinary drama of them all, from the Himalaya to New Zealand, Patagonia, Yosemite and...
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    Nietzsche For Beginners
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    Nietzsche For Beginners

    Not only does Nietzsche For Beginners delve into the scandalous life and considerable works of Friedrich Nietzsche, it also give a clear picture of the puzzling time in which he lived. We meet the luminaries of the day - Richard Wagner, Bismarck, Freud,...
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    Nonviolent Soldier of Islam

    The story of the great Muslim peacemaker Badshah Khan, who joined Mahatma Gandhi in nonviolent resistance to British rule in India. Khn Abdul Ghaffr Khn (Badshah Khan or Bacha Khan) came from a Pathan society that was steeped in a tradition of blood...
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    Bob Marley and the Golden Age of Reggae

    The all encompassing bio of Bob Marley written by Kim Gottlieb Walker, who photographed Bob for High Times. During 1975 and 1976, renowned underground photo-journalist Kim Gottlieb, and her husband, Island publicity head Jeff Walker, documented what is...
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  • From Hamas to America
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    From Hamas to America

    From Hamas to America is a gripping memoir that follows the son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan, as he breaks away from his culture's practice of terrorism to becoming a double-agent for Israel to finally fleeing to America and becoming a US citizen, and...
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  • take less. do more.
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    take less. do more.

    In this personal journey, ultra-light backpacker and sought-after speaker Glen Van Peski shares the life lessons he has learned through years of lightening his pack and helping others.Adventures provide the richness and texture to a life well lived. So...
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    Sports Illustrated Tom Brady
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    Sports Illustrated Tom Brady

    Famouslyselected as the 199th pick, in the sixth round of the 2000 NFL Draft, Tom Brady's career trajectory is nothing short of legendary.By the time he hung up his cleats in 2023, Brady held nearly every major quarterback record, including career...
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  • Yadi
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    Yadi

    Celebrate Yadier Molina's incredible career with this vibrant retrospective.A 10-time All-Star with nine Gold Gloves and two World Series rings, Yadier Molina has established his position as one of the greatest Major League Baseball players of his...
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    My Train to Freedom
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    My Train to Freedom

    The breathtaking memoir by a member of "Nicky's family," a group of 669 Czechoslovakian children who escaped the Holocaust through Sir Nicholas Winton's Kindertransport project, My Train to Freedom relates the trials and achievements of award-winning...
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    Sports Illustrated The Boston Celtics at 75
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    Sports Illustrated The Boston Celtics at 75

    Celebrate the championship glory, Hall of Fame personalities, and passionate fans that make the Boston Celtics one of the most revered teams in basketballSports Illustrated celebrates basketball greatness with The Boston Celtics at 75, an extraordinary...
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    Sports Illustrated Derek Jeter
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    Sports Illustrated Derek Jeter

    Celebrating a New York icon and one of baseball's most beloved superstarsDerek Jeter made his major-league debut at age 20 in 1995. The following year, he earned Rookie of the Year honors as the starting shortstop as the Yankees won the team's first...
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    Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer
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    Journey to My Father, Isaac Bashevis Singer

    When Isaac Bashevis Singer emigrated to America in 1935, he left behind his wife and five-year-old son, Israel, with the promise to send for them as soon as he settled. He never did. In 1955, twenty years after their separation, Zamir came to New York to...
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    Speaking Freely

    What do Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Andrei Sakharov, and James Michener have in common? They were all published by Bob Bernstein during his twenty-five-year run as president of Random House, before he brought the dissidents Liu Binyan,...
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    Clyde the Glide
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    Clyde the Glide

    Through his fifteen-year career as an NBA player, Clyde Drexler played with elegance and flair, leadership and poise, integrity and an ability to come through in the clutch. He led the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals twice and helped the Houston...
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    The Revolution Besieged

    When Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik party led the first successful workers revolution in history, they were under no illusions that their work was finished with the overthrow of capitalism in Russia. As the fledgling workers' state was gripped by a...
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    When Reason Goes on Holiday

    Philosophers usually emphasize the importance of logic, clarity and reason. Therefore when they address political issues they will usually inject a dose of rationality in these discussions, right?Wrong. This book gives a lot of examples showing the...
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    Political Woman

    This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine...
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    In Love with Art

    "Jeet Heer more thoroughly and widely understands comics history and the perplexing binomial life of the cartoonist better than anyone who's not one. As well-versed in literature as he is in comics, he always gets at the peculiar, poetical texture of his...
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    The Beat Generation in San Francisco

    A blow-by-blow unearthing of the places where the Beat writers first came to full bloom: the flat where Ginsberg wrote "Howl;" Gary Snyder's zen cottage in Berkeley; the ghostly railroad yards where Kerouac and -Cassady toiled; the pads where Jack &...
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    The Seeker King
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    The Seeker King

    A woman in the audience once handed Elvis a crown saying, "You're the King." "No, honey," Elvis replied. "There is only one king -- Jesus Christ. I'm just a singer." Gary Tillery presents a coherent view of Elvis's thoughts through such anecdotes and...
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  • The Devil Inside
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    The Devil Inside

    "At a time when criticsare expected to be publicists, and anything famous is 'classic' or 'iconic,'Carlos Acevedo has managed to hold the line. The Devil Inside is asharp, hard-nosed aesthetic and cultural investigation into what everybody wasthrowing up...
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  • Meghan and Harry: The Real Story
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    Meghan and Harry: The Real Story

    Meghan and Harry The Real Story: Persecutors or Victims presents the reader with a strikingly forthright analysis of what happens when a vulnerable male, raised in the traditions of the Old World and protected by a lifetime of privilege, falls head over...
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  • Unbelievable Underdogs & Rebellious Role Models
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    Unbelievable Underdogs & Rebellious Role Models

    In Unbelievable Underdogs and Rebellious Role Models, James Stafford takes readers on an emotional roller coaster through some of the greatest upsets and shocks in the history of world sport.It features incredible true tales of athletes who have overcome...
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  • A Person Is a Prayer
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    A Person Is a Prayer

    An intensely moving, lyrical and often funny novel about a family whose story of migration from Kenya and India to England is told over three separate days, across six decades.Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they...
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    Einstein in Oxford
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    Einstein in Oxford

    Albert Einstein visited Oxford in 1931, to receive an honorary degree and to lecture on relativity and the Universe. While lecturing, he naturally chalked equations and diagrams on several blackboards. One of these is today the most popular object in...
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  • Bedsit land
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    Bedsit land

    A rich and revealing examination of the legendary pop duo Soft Cell.Soft Cell are not your average pop band. Marc Almond and Dave Ball may be best known for the string of hits they released in 1981, but the powerful first phase of their collaboration...
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  • John Bsst
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    John Bsst

    A rich biography of artist-turned-environmental campaigner John Busst.Known to his enemies as 'The Bingil Bay Bastard', John Busst, a Bendigo-born Melbourne bohemian artist, moved to tropical Bedarra Island in North Queensland and underwent an...
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  • Peripathetic
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    Peripathetic

    There was something so captivating about always being on the edge, on that shaky precipice of promise - something new and something cool was just lurking around the corner and we'd arrive at it if we kick around long enough.Peripathetic is about shit...
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    Geoffrey Chaucer
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    Geoffrey Chaucer

    A new critical biography of medieval England's most famous poet.For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though more recent treatments of The Canterbury Tales'lively and often risqu style have made his name more synonymous with...
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    Tangled Paths
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    Tangled Paths

    Tangled Paths tells the life story of Aby Warburg, one of the most influential historians of art and culture of the twentieth century. It also tells the story of a man who, throughout his life, struggled to assert his place in the world. Charting...
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    Zora Neale Hurston
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    Zora Neale Hurston

    This book explores the creativity and life of Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), the most published African American woman writer of the first half of the twentieth century. Her life spanned a period of rapid technological change and advancement, and one of...
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  • How to Knit a Human
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    How to Knit a Human

    **Shortlisted, 2024 Queensland Literary Awards, The Courier-MailPeople'sChoiceQueenslandBook of the YearAward**I want to know what it was like to have crossed into the realm of madness. After all, I did it. I went mad. Why can't I have the...
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    North of Nowhere
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    North of Nowhere

    The incomparable first-hand account of the historic Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada told by one of the commissioners who led it. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission was established to record the previously hidden history of more than a...
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  • Queen of the Court
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    Queen of the Court

    From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Madeleine Blais, the dramatic and colorful story of legendary tennis star and international celebrity, Alice MarbleIn August 1939, Alice Marble graced the cover of Life magazine, photographed by the famed Alfred...
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    Pink Floyd in Comics!
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    Pink Floyd in Comics!

    Do you really know Pink Floyd? This comics documentary retraces the history of the group, from their meeting to the solo adventures of the artists. A great opportunity to revisit famous episodes in the life of the mythical group and explore what made...
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  • Brittle Joints
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    Brittle Joints

    Starred Review from Publishers Weekly. "It's a revealing visualization of a rare, 'depersonalizing' condition and how Sweeney finds 'drops of disabled joy whenever I can.' Sweeney's subtle and elegant art reflects the nuance of her moment-to-moment...
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  • What Makes Him Tic?
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    What Makes Him Tic?

    When Michele Turk's 11-year-old son Michael was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome, she made it her mission to show him, and later others, that he was so much more than the boy who shouted obscenities hundreds of times a day. What Makes Him Tic? A Memoir...
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  • Poor Man's Feast
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    Poor Man's Feast

    "[A] smart yet tender tale.... Sometimes heartbreaking, often hilarious... one of the finest food memoirs of recent years." -The New York Times Book ReviewFor a woman raised by a weight-obsessed mother and a father who rebelled by sneaking his daughter...
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  • The Most Human
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    The Most Human

    While the tabloids and fan publications portrayed the Nimoys as a 'close family,' to his son Adam, Leonard Nimoy was a total stranger.The actor was as inscrutable as the iconic half-Vulcan science officer he portrayed on Star Trek, even...
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    My Beckett, My Howe, My Son
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    My Beckett, My Howe, My Son

    Beckett's Childrenis a lyrical blend of personal memoir, fatherson dialogue, and literary investigation that probes the works of Irish writer Samuel Beckett and American poet Susan Howe in search of traces of their long-rumored status as father and...
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    Good

    This is the story of the incredible journey of David Good, the son of an American anthropologist father, and indigenous Yanomami mother who calls the Amazon rainforest her home. Overlapping the story of what David' s mother' s early years were like being...
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    Ground Control
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    Ground Control

    In the 1960s and '70s, America spent $24 billion (around $150 billion in today's dollars) to land humans on the moon and 'win' the space race. And while humans took their first steps on an extraterrestrial landscape, protesters at Cape...
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    World's Fastest Man*

    For two days in late September 1988, Canada's Ben Johnson was the most celebrated athlete on the planet.Winner of the 100-meter sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world record 9.79 seconds, he'd just had time to say, "A gold medal-that's something no one...
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Biography Books – Explore Inspiring True Stories

Step into the extraordinary lives of real people with BookLoop’s rich and diverse collection of biography books. Whether you're searching for heartfelt autobiographies, gripping tales of adventurers and explorers, or intimate portraits of public figures, our General Biography section is your gateway to powerful stories that captivate and inspire.

This category brings together compelling accounts from every walk of life. Dive into the world of arts and entertainment with biographies of musicians, actors and filmmakers, or gain insight into the minds of influential thinkers through our philosophy and social sciences biographies.

If you’re passionate about real-life stories that have shaped history, don’t miss our collection of historical, political and military biographies. For those interested in innovation and progress, our science, technology and medicine biographies highlight incredible journeys of discovery and transformation.

Looking for more specific interests? Discover stories from sporting legends, business pioneers, spiritual leaders and even the lives of royalty. Our collected biographies bring together stories around a shared theme or event, perfect for readers who want a broader perspective.

For modern readers, we’ve included social media influencers and trendsetters who are shaping today's culture. And if you love literature, explore the lives behind the words in our biographies of writers.

At BookLoop, we pride ourselves on curating a wide selection of general biographies for Australian readers who crave meaningful, real-life narratives. With fast, local shipping and secure checkout, it’s easy to find your next great read. Whether you're after famous autobiographies, celebrity memoirs, or non-fiction life stories that move and motivate, you're in the right place.

Browse BookLoop's Biography category today and find a new perspective through someone else's story.