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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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  • Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked
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    Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels: Bookmarked

    What is it about Elena Ferrante's writing, especially her masterwork Neapolitan Novels, that resonates so deeply with millions of readers, making this Italian author who writes under a pseudonym with absolutely no "platform" an international...
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    The Longest Climb

    An inspiring, moving, and unblinking view of a battered climber who refuses to turn his back on the mountains.Born in Bolton, England, Paul Pritchard started climbing when he was 16 years old. In time, he became one of the foremost British climbers of...
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    A Life for Liberty
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    A Life for Liberty

    A law professor's memoir of his own ascendancy from prosecutor to influential legal thinker.From prosecuting murderers in Chicago, to arguing before the Supreme Court, to authoring more than a dozen books, Georgetown University law professor Randy...
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    On the Trail of the JFK Assassins
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    On the Trail of the JFK Assassins

    Updated with an Epilogue examining new evidence about the actual perpetrators.Using newly declassified information, Dick Russell builds on four decades of painstaking research inOn the Trail of the JFK Assassins, offering one of the most comprehensive...
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  • Through The Crack In The Wall
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    Through The Crack In The Wall

    'Everything was just so intense. There was an alienation and awkwardness about Josef K, but that was actually very true to life for me. Listening today I find really difficult because it brings back so many memories, so many ghosts and characters from...
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  • Chopping Wood
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    Chopping Wood

    Chopping Wood is Pete Seeger up close and personal like never before. Derived from years of conversations between Seeger and his close friend and collaborator David Bernz, it takes readers on a uniquely personal journey through this legendary folksinger...
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    The Beach Boys
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    The Beach Boys

    'There's love in the music and people can relate to the love, regardless of whether you're two years old or 92 years old. For me, music is about love. Love is the message I want to share. I hope people feel that in my music. That makes the hard...
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    C.S. Lewis's Oxford
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    C.S. Lewis's Oxford

    The fantastical fictional land of Narnia, famously reached via a magical wardrobe, has many connections to the world in which its creator C. S. Lewis lived. The influence of Oxford can be seen not only in medieval buildings and towers but also in the...
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    Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografa
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    Louis Carlos Bernal: Monografa

    A landmark survey of one of the most significant American photographers of the twentieth centuryBest known for his intimate portrayals of barrio communities of the Southwest United States, Louis Carlos Bernal made photographs in the late 1970s and 1980s...
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  • The Shochet
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    The Shochet

    This book is conceivably the first time that a halachically-informed Jew offers a full picture of his life with the trials, tribulations, and difficulties that he encountered. It also describes the difficulties that rabbis and other Jewish religious...
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  • Brave Girl
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    Brave Girl

    "Brave Girl: A Story on the Wind" paints the vivid picture of LaRayne Woster's journey through life, set against the backdrop of central South Dakota. Born to a mixed heritage of Lakota and Irish, LaRayne grapples with her cultural identity while...
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  • In the Garden Behind the Moon
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    In the Garden Behind the Moon

    Alexandra Chan thinks she has life figured out until, in the Year of the Ram, the death of her father-her last parent-brings her to her knees, an event seemingly foretold in Chinese mythology. A left-brained archaeologist and successful tiger daughter,...
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    Life as a Cabaret
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    Life as a Cabaret

    Cabaret has historically existed on the fringes, populated by those who find themselves, voluntarily or involuntarily, falling outside of conventional society. It pushes the boundaries of gender, politics, identity, power, and social norms. It's live and...
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  • My Life with Sea Turtles
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    My Life with Sea Turtles

    'A WONDERFUL READ...Christine's deep love for turtles comes through on each page.' CRAIG FOSTER, MY OCTOPUS TEACHER 'Will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.' DR. JANE GOODALLFilled with...
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    How to Become Famous
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    How to Become Famous

    Fame is like lightning. Taylor Swift, Bob Dylan, Leonardo da Vinci, Jane Austen, Oprah Winfrey - all of them were struck. Why? What if they hadn't been?Consider the most famous music group in history. What would the world be like if the Beatles...
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    Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies
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    Gamblers, Fraudsters, Dreamers & Spies

    'Bob Whiting came to the city as a stranger in a strange land in 1962 and stayed for five decades - he knows the dark alleys, the good whisky bars, the crooked politicians and the crooks, the baseball players, the bookies...better than anyone...
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  • Legal Briefs
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    Legal Briefs

    In Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, editor Roger Witten takes us behind the scenes of some of the most fascinating court cases of the last few decades, while introducing us to the sometimes strange, and sometimes comical situations...
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    Hardly Harmless Drudgery
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    Hardly Harmless Drudgery

    At last! Godine found a use for the word "sciolist" in a subtitle! This is a throwback to Godine's core of erudition on obscure but fascinating subjects.Unique history of lexicographers and the dictionaries they created. Abundantly illustrated.Author,...
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    Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition
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    Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings: The Manga Edition

    Miyamoto Musashi is the greatest swordsman who ever lived. He is renowned for his fighting prowess and famous for having never having been defeated. Then he mysteriously disappeared at the relatively young age of 29 to meditate and study.This book tells...
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  • Counterfeit Worlds
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    Counterfeit Worlds

    Philip K. Dick struggled to make a living during his lifetime, but his work has since served as a deep seam of ideas to be mined by filmmakers such as Ridley Scott, Paul Verhoeven, Steven Spielberg, John Woo and Richard Linklater, resulting in some of...
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  • My Belly
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    My Belly

    If my hatred of my belly was a person, she would be old enough to have completed a lengthy education and given me grandchildren.An unflinching and feminist portrait of one woman's obsession with her belly and the cultural and social norms that feed that...
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  • Freedom Shall Prevail
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    Freedom Shall Prevail

    Freedom Shall Prevail is the first graphic novel exploring the life and struggle of Abdullah calan, affectionately known as "Apo." Highly regarded around the world, calan led the Kurdish freedom struggle as the head of the PKK from its foundation in 1978...
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  • Rottenkid
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    Rottenkid

    A memoir sauteed in Hollywood stories, world travel, and always, the need to belongProlific cookbook author Brigit Binns' coming-of-age memoir-co-starring her alcoholic actor father Edward Binns and glamorous but viciously smart narcissistic...
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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.