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  • Althea Gibson: I Always Wanted To Be Somebody
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    Althea Gibson: I Always Wanted To Be Somebody

    I Always Wanted To Be Somebody is the intimate and candid story of a girl who grew up in the asphalt environs of Harlem, skipping school, drinking hard liquor, stealing and fist-fighting, but went on to break the color barrier in tennis and achieving the...
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  • Bond of Secrecy
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    Bond of Secrecy

    A father's last confession to his son about the CIA, Watergate, and the plot to assassinate President John F. Kennedy, this is the remarkable true story of St. John Hunt and his father E. Howard Hunt, the infamous Watergate burglar and CIA spymaster. In...
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    Master of the Mysteries

    "Louis Sahagun's gripping biography is an insightful look at the life and times of one of the last century's most important mystical thinkers."-The Fortean TimesIn 1919, a Canadian teenager with a sixth grade education arrived by train to the wilds of...
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    I Thought I Could Fly

    "Evocative images, eloquent testimony-a frank and often inspiring exploration of the experience of mental illness."-Peter D. Kramer, author of Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind and Listening to ProzacA tree's bare limbs against a grey sky, a young...
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    Bang Ditto

    "Punchy, spiky, and flush with a young writer's love of language, the collection often deglamourizes the acting business. A great find."-Library JournalWith insightful poetry that is quite serious yet has fun with metaphor, imagery, and language, Amber...
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    The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber

    The Seven Addictions and Five Professions of Anita Berber is the first contemporary biography of a notorious actor/dancer/poet/playwright who scandalized sex-obsessed Weimar Berlin during the 1920s.In an era where everything was permitted, Anita Berber's...
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    The Wild Muir

    Here is an entertaining collection of famed conservationist John Muir's most exciting adventures in nature, representing some of his finest writing. From the famous avalanche ride off the rim of Yosemite Valley to his night spent weathering a windstorm...
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  • One Little Life
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    One Little Life

    Good girls do what they're told.Good girls please.Good girls make everyone else happy.Good girls do not cause trouble.Good girls keep their legs open and their mouths shut.Good girls smile and hide their true feelings.Good girls are silent.Good girls...
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  • Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches
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    Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches

    Nightclub, theatre, creative hub, party place, and one of the most important venues in Scotland, Britain and Europe: for almost 25 years, The Arches was the beating heart of Glasgow.In 1991, former punk-turned-theatre director Andy Arnold walked into the...
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  • Roger Federer
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    Roger Federer

    Ren Stauffer has been closely covering Roger Federer's career for nearly 25 years. In this comprehensive biography, Stauffer talks at length to the man himself, his family, friends, coaches and rivals to paint an unrivalled picture of the greatest male...
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  • The Cinematic Connery
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    The Cinematic Connery

    Scotland's greatest export. The world's first super spy. Voted the sexiest man on the planet.Sir Sean Connery was a titanic figure on screen and off for over half a century.Behind the son of a factory worker, growing up in near-poverty on the harsh...
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  • When Lions Roared
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    When Lions Roared

    By 1971 no Lions team had ever defeated the All Blacks in a Test series. Since 1904, six Lions sides had travelled to New Zealand and all had returned home bruised, battered, and beaten.But the 1971 tour party was different. It was full of young,...
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  • Ken Scotland
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    Ken Scotland

    Ken Scotland was born on 29 August 1936 within sight of Heriot's Goldenacre ground, which he would go onto grace with great panache and skill several years later.A prodigious talent at fly-half while at school, he was converted into a full-back during...
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  • Fifty Forgotten Books
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    Fifty Forgotten Books

    Fifty Forgotten Books is a very special sort of book about books, by a great bookman and for book-people of all ages and levels of experience. Not quite literary criticism, not quite an autobiography, it is at once a guided tour through the dusty...
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  • Lady of Spain
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    Lady of Spain

    Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, was born in 1538 into a family at the heart of Court struggles between Catholicism and Protestantism, and married twenty years later into the world of the Spanish Court, refuge of exiled English Catholics. The marriage...
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    Dreaming of Rose

    In 2003 the former Women's Press editor and critic Sarah LeFanu published her acclaimed biography of Rose Macaulay with Virago Press.'A magnificent job ... imaginative and thoughtful, dense with distilled information ... LeFanu offers a skilled, visual,...
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    Personal Pleasures

    In 1935 Rose Macaulay (1881-1958) was a well-established novelist, reviewer, columnist and feminist wit. She was part of the 'intellectual aristocracy' of England, but was also passionately interested in everyday life and its foolishnesses. Personal...
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  • How To Be Autistic
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    How To Be Autistic

    An urgent, funny, shocking, and impassioned memoir by the winner of the Spectrum Art Prize 2018, How To Be Autistic presents the rarely shown point of view of someone living with autism.Poe's voice is confident, moving and often funny, as they reveal to...
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  • The Roles We Play
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    The Roles We Play

    'Where is home, Mum?' From the foothills of the Himalayas in the Kashmiri valleys to bustling Green Street in East London, Sabba Khan researches her identity from the global to the local, covering partition, displacement, and clothing choices for an...
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  • Billionaires
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    Billionaires

    The super-rich are often portrayed as self-made, as if their wealth was created entirely by their own efforts. But is this true? In his latest book of graphic analysis, cartoonist Darryl Cunningham examines the evidence in his graphic biographies of...
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  • Notes from Childhood
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    Notes from Childhood

    Looking to commission an introduction from a fan of Norah Lange's previous works. Translated by award winning translator Charlotte Whittle and we may commission translators note. First translation in English of Norah Lange's memoir. An influential...
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  • Holy Ghost
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    Holy Ghost

    Holy Ghost is the first extended study of free jazz saxophonist Albert Ayler, who is seen today as one of the most important innovators in the history of jazz.Ayler synthesized children's songs, La Marseillaise, American march music, and gospel hymns,...
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  • Revolutionary Spirit
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    Revolutionary Spirit

    Part memoir, part social history, Revolutionary Spirit is the poignant, often hilarious story of a cult Liverpool musician's scenic route to fame and artistic validation. If Morrissey was the Oscar Wilde of the 1980s indie scene, Simpson was its William...
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  • Arnold Schwarzenegger
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    Arnold Schwarzenegger

    Arnold Schwarzenegger - a bodybuilder-turned-real-estate mogul who turned an undefeated streak at the Mr Olympia contest into an astonishing film career and eight years as the governor of California - is, for many people, the embodiment of the American...
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  • Monarch of the Green
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    Monarch of the Green

    Young Tom Morris, the son of the legendary pioneer of golf, Tom Morris, was golf's first superstar.Born at a pivotal moment in history, just as the new and inexpensive 'gutty' ball was making golf affordable and drawing thousands of new players to the...
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  • What's Exactly The Matter With Me?
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    What's Exactly The Matter With Me?

    "I have been seeking P.F. Sloan, but no one knows where he's gone"'P.F. Sloan' by Jimmy Webb"Absolutely none of 'em could beat ol' P.F."Lester Bangs, Rolling Stone magazineWhat's Exactly The Matter With Me? is a first-person account of an extraordinary...
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  • Jack Bruce Composing Himself
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    Jack Bruce Composing Himself

    When Cream broke up in 1968 it was by no means a foregone conclusion that it would be Eric Clapton who would enjoy continued commercial success. After all, it was Jack Bruce who had the looks, and who co-wrote and sang all the band's major hits,...
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    Livin' Loud
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    Livin' Loud

    'I was raised with an artist's mentality; my first 25 years were spent as somebody who wanted to live among graphics and artwork and illustration, and then for the next 30 years it was all music. Recently, I've reverted into the arts, combining...
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    Magic: A Journal of Song
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    Magic: A Journal of Song

    'I can be scratching around at home on an acoustic guitar, or singing a funny little idea into my phone, and all of a sudden, it becomes a beautifulfully fledged song. And I'm asking myself, how did we do that again? I still find that...
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    Came the Lightening
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    Came the Lightening

    'Here on the shore, twenty years later, my message in a bottle has reached dry land. Words about our life, his death but mostly love and our journey to the end.' - Olivia HarrisonOlivia Harrison presents Came the Lightening a book of...
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    Six-String Stories
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    Six-String Stories

    'These guitars have been really good tools; they're not just museum pieces. They all have a soul and they all come alive.' Eric Clapton'In his own words, Clapton tells his story through the history of his instruments.'Rolling StoneInSix-String...
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    Wembley or Bust
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    Wembley or Bust

    'When I wrote and recorded these songs originally, I never would have expected the fantastic audience response all these years later; it's amazing.' Jeff LynneThe music of Jeff Lynne is beloved by fans all over the world and...
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    Dark Room
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    Dark Room

    Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book unlike any other. At its heart is the artist's description of a life lived making pictures between the dark and the light, a deeply personal account woven against the history of photography from the...
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    Defying Hitler
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    Defying Hitler

    'Long Live Freedom!'-Hans Scholl's last words before his executionThe White Rose (die Weie Rose) resistance circle was a group of students and a professor at the University of Munich who in the early 1940s secretly wrote and...
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    Evelyn Waugh's Oxford
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    Evelyn Waugh's Oxford

    A unique literary biography, this book brings to life Waugh's Oxford, exploring the lasting impression it made on one of the most accomplished literary craftsmen of the twentieth century.Oxford held a special place in Evelyn Waugh's imagination. So...
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    The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
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    The Making of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

    'Invention...does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos' - Mary Shelley In the 200 years since its first publication, the story of Frankenstein's creation during stormy days and nights at Byron's Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva has...
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    Scholars, Poets and Radicals
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    Scholars, Poets and Radicals

    Exploring the Blackwell Collections (publishing and bookselling archives), Rita Ricketts discovered diverse characters associated with this world-famous company, between 1830 and 1940. There is a tailor's son saving souls, a reluctant radical, a...
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  • My Way
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    My Way

    Inspired by the Frost/Nixon interviews and Walter Isaacson's authorsubjectrelationship with Steve Jobs, Alan Friedman tells the story of SilvioBerlusconi, the billionaire media mogul turned Prime Minister, who hasdominated Italian life for the past...
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  • Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping
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    Inside the Mind of Xi Jinping

    Xi Jinping wants to become the world's most powerful leader. To succeed, he must balance Mao's Little Red Book with the Analects of Confucius, and more.For Xi, the task ahead of China is to preserve the guiding ideology of Marxism, while challenging...
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    Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Companions of the Prophet
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    Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Companions of the Prophet

    Sayings of the Companions of the Prophet (PBUH) is a selection of 365 profound and pithy observations made by the Prophet's illustrious Companions. The sayings supplement and complement the life-giving message of the Qur'an and Sunnah that these...
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    A Talib's Tale
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    A Talib's Tale

    John Butt came to Swat in 1970 as a young man in search of an education he couldn't get from his birthplace in England. He travels around the region, first only with friends from his home country, but as he befriends the locals and starts to learn about...
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    Daily Wisdom: Sayings of the Prophet Muhammad

    Pitch to pre-publication journals as well as Islamic Horizons, Al Jadid, and Azizah magazine Will approach bloggers with mainstream Islamic interest such as MuslimMatters.org Target major Muslim US associations including Muslim Student Association,...
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    James Sowerby
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    James Sowerby

    First full biography of James Sowerby using some new, as well as extensive scholarly resources Provides authoritative and enlightening accounts of how some of the most important botanical works were produced and used. Covers the importance of botany at...
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  • Paint My Name in Black and Gold
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    Paint My Name in Black and Gold

    Leeds, 1980. Amid the violence and decay, the city was home to an extraordinarily vibrant post-punk scene. Out of that swamp crawled the Sisters of Mercy. Over the next five years, they would rise from local heroes to leading alternative band, before...
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  • Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom
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    Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom

    The legendary music impresario (and producer of bands likeThe Yardbirds and Wham!)tells his life story in a series of mesmerisingly candid vignettes.Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Lifeis the book Simon Napier-Bell's fans have always...
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    Between the Devil and the Deep
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    Between the Devil and the Deep

    "One of the best accounts ever written of deep-water diving and its staggering, haunting dangers." Robert Kurson, New York Times bestselling author of Shadow Divers Deep underwater lurks a mysterious man-made illness. It has gone by many names over the...
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  • Tales from the Colony Room
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    Tales from the Colony Room

    Entertaining, shocking, uproarious, hilarious . . . like eavesdropping on a wake, as the mourners get gradually more drunk and tell ever more outrageous stories' Sunday Times This is the definitive history of London's most notorious drinking den, the...
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  • The Hockneys
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    The Hockneys

    'He has a view of me no one else has.' - David HockneyThe Hockneys is a never before seen insight into the lives of one of the world's most famous artists and his family by youngest brother John, from growing up in the Second World War in Bradford...
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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.