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  • Finding the Fox
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    Finding the Fox

    'Tjernshaugen writes in an easy-to-read style that is full of insight and understanding. I felt like I was sitting beside him as he described fox behavior.' - Rick McIntyre, Yellowstone wolf researcher and author of The Rise of Wolf 8An...
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  • The Pain Project
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    The Pain Project

    'The Pain Project is ironically full of pleasure: on every page is another generous, original insight into this most intimate human subject.' - NAOMI KLEIN, author of Doppelganger'The Pain Project is a beautiful, humane,...
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    Searching for Franklin
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    Searching for Franklin

    Arctic historian Ken McGoogan approaches the legacy of nineteenth-century explorer Sir John Franklin from a contemporary perspective and offers a surprising new explanation of an enduring Northern mystery.Two of Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin's...
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  • Bad Indians  (10th Anniversary Edition)
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    Bad Indians (10th Anniversary Edition)

    Now in paperback and newly expanded, this gripping memoir is hailed as essential by Joy Harjo, Leslie Marmon Silko, and ELLE magazine-among others.Bad Indians-part tribal history, part lyric and intimate memoir-is essential reading for anyone seeking to...
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  • Honeymoons
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    Honeymoons

    Beautifully produced and a perfect gift for travellers newly wedded or not - by turn funny, tender, acerbic and charming.Includes extracts from: Paul Bowles, Dorothy Sayers, D. H. Lawrence, Byron, Tolstoy, Flaubert, Dorothy Parker, A. N. Wilson,...
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  • When My Ghost Sings
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    When My Ghost Sings

    A lucid exploration of amnesia, selfhood, and who is left behind when the past is obliterated.Tara Sidhoo Fraser is thirty-one years old when a rare mutation in her brain causes a stroke. Awakening after surgery with no memory of her previous life, she...
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  • Erdoan
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    Erdoan

    **Winner, 2022 Atomium Comic Strip Prize**A comprehensive graphic biography of Recep Tayyip Erdoan, the authoritarian president of Turkey.One of the world's most divisive and controversial leaders, Recep Tayyip Erdoan has ruled over Turkey as either...
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    Barbara Comyns
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    Barbara Comyns

    The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on...
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  • She played and sang
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    She played and sang

    Like her much-loved heroine Emma Woodhouse, Jane Austen 'played and sang'. Music occupied a central role in her life, and she made brilliant use of it in her books to illuminate characters' personalities and highlight the contrasts between them.Until...
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  • An Unruled Body
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    An Unruled Body

    In a searching and powerful debut memoir, award-winning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body, intuition, and desire.Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came...
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    Duty Calls
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    Duty Calls

    Follow the remarkable journey of a trailblazing American leader, Dr. Antonia Novello, the first woman and the first Hispanic Surgeon General of the United States Dr. Antonia Novellois a vanguard in the United States and Puerto Rico, whose enduring...
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  • Nina Simone in Comics!
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    Nina Simone in Comics!

    This is the story of an emancipation, that of a young black and poor woman living in an America marked by segregation.This is the story of a fierce battle, that of a musician involved in the civil rights movement.This is the story of a long career, that...
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  • Degas & Cassatt
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    Degas & Cassatt

    One of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A loner, he only loved one woman without ever courting...
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    A Seat at the Table
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    A Seat at the Table

    When Shirley Chisholm was asked why she would dare run for president, her response was, why not her? Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm rose from being the child of immigrants to the United States to running for the highest office in the land. She was both...
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    Gorilla Tactics
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    Gorilla Tactics

    Gorillas are among the most recognizable of the large charismatic mammals, but climate change and poaching has brought them to the brink of extinction. Greg Cummings was the executive director of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund for seventeen years. He...
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  • Easywriter, The Flawed Memories of an Easyriders Editor
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    Easywriter, The Flawed Memories of an Easyriders Editor

    Kai Michael Raecke was a journalist for Easyriders Magazine for 32 years, a motorcycle enthusiast, world traveler, and a passionate philanthropist. He was born in Austria, and raised in the town of Freilassing in southern Bavaria by his maternal...
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    Alcatraz Ghost Story
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    Alcatraz Ghost Story

    The Incredible True Story of the Most Hunted Man in Pacific Coast Historyand the Woman He LovedBefore the 1920s found theirroar, a charismatic gambling addict named Roy Gardner dominated news headlines with daring train robberies and escapes from...
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  • Women and Psychedelics
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    Women and Psychedelics

    This collection of short essays examines the place of women in the history of psychedelics.While some of the subjects are pioneers in their own right, the authors in this collection go beyond merely adding women to the past in psychedelic history,...
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  • Orwell's Island
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    Orwell's Island

    Revered across the globe as an author of compelling novels, journalism, and essays that came to define the twentieth century, George Orwell was anunmatchedpolitical visionary, shining a light on the insidious nature of propaganda. Yet this chronicler of...
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  • The Hands that Crafted the Bomb
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    The Hands that Crafted the Bomb

    Josh Fernandez is a community college professor who finds himself under investigation for "soliciting students for potentially dangerous activities" after starting an antifascist club on campus.As Fernandez spends the year defending his job, he reflects...
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  • Pep Guardiola: The Evolution
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    Pep Guardiola: The Evolution

    For three extraordinary seasons at Bayern Munich, Martin Perarnau was given total access around the German super club - to its players, its backroom staff, its board members and, above all, to its manager, Pep Guardiola. In the follow-up to his...
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  • Gaytheist
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    Gaytheist

    Starred Review from Kirkus Reviews. "The animated evolution of a queer boy from his strict religious upbringing to a liberated adolescence. . . . Tokyo-based couple Mann and Gatts integrate their illustrative and authorial talents in this debut graphic...
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  • Welcome to the club
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    Welcome to the club

    Featuring a foreword from Annie MacIn Welcome to the club, Manchester legend DJ Paulette shares the highs, lows and lessons of a thirty-year music career, with help from some famous friends.One of the Hacienda's first female DJs, Paulette has scaled the...
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    Clay and Bones
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    Clay and Bones

    Told with unflinching honesty and a touch of gallows humor,Clay and Bonesis the personal memoir of the first female forensic sculptor in the FBI.Lisa Bailey never considered a career working in death until she saw the FBI job posting for a forensic...
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  • If You See Them
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    If You See Them

    A moving exploration of the crisis of homeless youth-told through the inspiring stories of a woman on the frontlines and the kids themselves.They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order...
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  • Fighting Retreat
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    Fighting Retreat

    Winston Churchill was closely connected with India from 1896, when he landed in Bombay with his regiment, until 1947, when independence was finally achieved. No other British statesman had such a long association with the sub-continent-or interfered in...
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  • Bethel Daze
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    Bethel Daze

    Gary tells his true story of how he became one of Jehovah's Witnesses (JW) at the age of fifteen, and how he became a member of the JW Headquarters "family" in Brooklyn, New York in the early 1980s. The stories in Bethel Daze have mainly to do with his...
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  • Absolute Beginner
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    Absolute Beginner

    'Kevin does what I pretend to do. Kevin's a proper musician.' David Bowie'Kevin Armstrong has been around, and around.' Iggy PopGrowing up in a world of punk squats and the London pub-rock scene, suburban rookie guitarist Kevin Armstrong found himself...
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    Handwritten
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    Handwritten

    A celebration of the art of handwriting, introducing famous writers, scientists and historical figures through documents written by their own hands.The less it is part of everyday life, the more the appeal of handwriting grows. This wonderful selection...
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  • Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper
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    Confessions of a Rock N Roll Name Dropper

    On December 8, 1980, twenty-something rock journalist Laurie Kaye entered the legendary Dakota apartments in New York to interview her longtime idol John Lennon. It was the last interview Lennon would ever give- just hours later, outside that same...
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  • Maggie Alphonsi: My Autobiography
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    Maggie Alphonsi: My Autobiography

    Maggie Alphonsi is not only a national sporting icon, the face of international women's rugby and star player of the England side that won the World Cup in 2014. She is also an inspirational and totemic figure who transcends sport.The compelling story of...
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  • LeBron James: In His Own Words
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    LeBron James: In His Own Words

    Get inside the head of LeBron James: basketball star, activist, philanthropist, and one of the most influential athletes in the world.This collection of quotes has been curated from LeBron James's numerous public statements-interviews, social media...
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  • The End of the Hour
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    The End of the Hour

    'A frank chronicle of healing.' - Kirkus ReviewsWhat happens when a trauma therapist is traumatised by loss?Esteemed trauma therapist Meghan Riordan Jarvis knew how to help her patients process grief. For nearly twenty years, Meghan...
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  • A Wild Path
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    A Wild Path

    A soul-satisfying journey through the wilderness that uncovers hope, healing, and the abiding grace of wild things A Wild Path is author Douglas Wood's highly anticipated followup to the critically acclaimed memoir Deep Woods, Wild Waters. He again leads...
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  • Failure to Launch
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    Failure to Launch

    Not all dreams come true! While history is written by the winners, the full story of humanity is built on the moments when things went completely sideways; the spectacular screw-ups, monumental mistakes, and explosive errors that paved the way for the...
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  • David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine
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    David Bowie, Enid Blyton and the sun machine

    In this one-of-a-kind book, novelist and academic Nicholas Royle brings together two remarkably different creative figures: Enid Blyton and David Bowie. His exploration of their lives and work delves deeply into questions about the value of art, music...
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  • The Plant Thieves
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    The Plant Thieves

    ** Longlisted, 2023 Mark & Evette Moran Nib Literary Award **The Plant Thieves reveals remarkable stories from the National Herbarium of New South Wales - its people, its archives and its most guarded specimens.Who gets to collect plants, name them,...
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    Fugitive of Empire
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    Fugitive of Empire

    In 1912, Rash Behari Bose made his dramatic entrance into India's anti-colonial freedom movement when he orchestrated a bomb attack against the British Viceroy during a public procession in Delhi. Forced to flee his homeland, Bose settled in Japan,...
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  • The Iconoclast
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    The Iconoclast

    Shinzo Abe entered politics burdened by high expectations: that he would change Japan. In 2007, seemingly overwhelmed, he resigned after only a year as prime minister. Yet, following five years of reinvention, he masterfully regained the premiership in...
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  • The Girl Prince
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    The Girl Prince

    In February 1910, the young woman who would become Virginia Woolf played the most famous practical joke in British military history. Blackening her face and masquerading as an African prince, with friends she conned her way onto the Dreadnought, the...
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  • Cast Mates
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    Cast Mates

    Cast Mates is a group biography of Australian acting giants across the ages.Australia has a long cinema history - starting with the world's first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, made in Melbourne and released in 1906. Today, much of...
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    Jack Ruby
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    Jack Ruby

    Jack Ruby changed history with one bold, violent action: killing accused presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on live TV two days after the November 22, 1963, murder of President John F. Kennedy. But who was Jack Ruby-and how did he come to be in that...
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    Sisters in Art
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    Sisters in Art

    With color photographs and artwork, Sisters in Art is the first biography to capture the lives and works of Margaret, Esther, and Helen Bruton, three exceptionally talented sisters whose mark on the California modernist art scene still impacts our world...
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  • A Fade of Light
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    A Fade of Light

    An intimate and moving graphic memoir by cartoonist Nate Fakes, dedicated to his stepdad Ron, a larger-than-life personality who gradually becomes affected by a rare form of dementia.Editor's Picks, Honorable Mention at Publishers Weekly's US Book Show"A...
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  • The Last Supper Club
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    The Last Supper Club

    A witty and humble tribute to the sometimes profane, sometimes profound world of waiting tablesDuring a year on sabbatical from his university position, Matthew Batt realized he needed money-fast-and it just so happened that one of the biggest breweries...
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    Fool
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    Fool

    The first biography of Henry VIII's court fool William Somer, a legendary entertainer and one of the most intriguing figures of the Tudor age.In some portraits of Henry VIII there appears another, striking figure - a gaunt and morose-looking man with a...
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    On Czeslaw Milosz
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    On Czeslaw Milosz

    Czesaw Miosz (19112004) was a giant of twentieth-century literature, not least because he lived through and wrote about many of the most extreme events of that extreme century, from the world wars and the Holocaust to the Cold War. Over a seven-decade...
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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.