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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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    Leon Battista Alberti
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    Leon Battista Alberti

    One of the most brilliant and original authors and architects of the entire Renaissance, Leon Battista Alberti's output encompassed engineering, surveying, cryptography, poetry, humour, political commentary and more. He employed irony, satire...
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    Blaise Cendrars
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    Blaise Cendrars

    In 1912 the young Frdric-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity. Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the next half-century, Cendrars wrote innovative poems, novels, essays, film scripts, and autobiographical prose...
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    Speaking East
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    Speaking East

    Isidore Isou was a young Jew in war-time Bucharest, and barely survived the Romanian Holocaust. He made his way to Paris where in 1945 he founded the avant-garde movement Lettrism, described as the missing link between Dada, Surrealism, Situationism and...
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    Louis-Ferdinand Cline
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    Louis-Ferdinand Cline

    Louis-Ferdinand Cline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond remains huge. This book sheds light on Cline's groundbreaking novels, which drew extensively on his complex...
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    Christine de Pizan
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    Christine de Pizan

    The daughter of a court intellectual, Christine de Pizan dwelled within the heart of late-medieval Paris. In the face of personal tragedy, she learned the tools of the booktrade, writing more than 40 works including poetry, historical and political...
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    Freedom from Violence and Lies
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    Freedom from Violence and Lies

    Anton Chekhov's stories and plays endure as outstanding modern literary works, and his life was no less dramatic, rising from poor beginnings to become a writer, physician and philanthropist.In this new biography Michael C. Finke analyses Chekhov's major...
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    Aldous Huxley
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    Aldous Huxley

    Aldous Huxley was one of the twentieth century's most prescient thinkers. This new biography is a rich and lucid account that charts the different phases of Huxley's career: from the early satirist who depicted the glamorous despair of the postwar...
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    The Invention of Oscar Wilde
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    The Invention of Oscar Wilde

    One should either wear a work or art, or be a work of art', Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde's self-creation as a 'work of art' and a carefully constructed cultural...
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    Henri Matisse

    A new, critical biography of the innovative and influential French artist Henri Matisse.Henri Matisse's experiments with form and colour revolutionised the twentieth-century art world. In this concise critical biography, Kathryn Brown explores Matisse's...
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    Ornette Coleman
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    Ornette Coleman

    The compelling story of one of America's most adventurous jazz musicians.Ornette Coleman's career encompassed the glory years of jazz and the American avant-garde. Born in segregated Fort Worth, Texas, during the Great Depression, the...
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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    Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    This new critical biography provides a complete picture of German novelist, playwright and poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The book offers fresh, thought-provoking interpretations of all the major works, including novels such as The Sorrows of Young...
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    Ren Magritte
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    Ren Magritte

    An illuminating reappraisal of Belgian surrealist artist Rene Magritte.The Belgian surrealist artist Ren Magritte redefined the way we think about art. Famous for his men in bowler hats, Magritte's witty and provocative work inspired generations of later...
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    Dmitry Shostakovich
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    Dmitry Shostakovich

    A vivid, absorbing new biography of Dmitry Shostakovich.Dmitry Shostakovich was one of the most successful composers of the twentieth century - a musician who adapted as no other to the unique pressures of his age. By turns vilified and feted by Stalin...
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    The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway
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    The Autobiography of Kathryn Janeway

    Kathryn Janeway reveals her career in Starfleet, from her first command to her epic journey through the Delta Quadrant leading to her rise to the top as vice-admiral in Starfleet Command. Discover the story of the woman who travelled...
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    Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974
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    Muhammad Ali, Kinshasa 1974

    Award-winning writer JD Morvan and renowned photographer Abbas' stunning graphic novel masterpiece which uses iconic photos to uniquely illustrate the historical 'Rumble in the Jungle' boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman. On the...
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    Little Victories
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    Little Victories

    The award winning graphic novel autobiography of a father, and the challenges he faces raising his autistic son.A beautifulvisual exploration of the highs and lows experienced by a parent learning howto adapt to his son's autism. Faced with a challenging...
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    I Judge No One
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    I Judge No One

    Why was Jesus, who said 'I judge no one', put to death for a political crime? Of course, this is a historical question - but it is not only historical. Jesus's life became a philosophical theme in the first centuries of our era, when 'pagan' and...
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    Black Crown
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    Black Crown

    The epic story of a man born into Caribbean slavery, who defeated Napoleon's armies and crowned himself a free black king.How did a Caribbean child, born into plantation slavery, come to defeat Napoleon's armies in battle and crown himself king of the...
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  • An African in Imperial London
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    An African in Imperial London

    Winner of The High Plains Book Award for Non-FictionA vivid biography of an African Edwardian chronicler of London, in a time of social upheaval.In a world dominated by the British Empire, and at a time when many Europeans considered black people...
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  • High Risk
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    High Risk

    This is a dark, raw and uncompromising tale of the human condition in extremis, drawing on the many lives of Ben Timberlake: as an archaeologist, Special Forces soldier, combat medic and drug addict.Starting with Ben's first near-death...
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  • Bibi
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    Bibi

    For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world's stage?In Bibi, Anshel...
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  • Break-Up
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    Break-Up

    Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon's political partnership changed the face of Scotland, bringing the country to within 200,000 votes of independence in 2014 and holding sway at Holyrood for more than a decade. Since the referendum, Scottish nationalism...
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  • Scandals of the Royal Palaces
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    Scandals of the Royal Palaces

    'Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.' - Henry Fielding George Orwell once said that the British love a really good murder. He might also have said that the only thing the British love more than a good murder is a really...
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  • The Road to my Daughter
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    The Road to my Daughter

    Elisabeth Spencer's daughter Milly came out as trans at the age of twenty-one. Just a few days later, in one of life's perfect storms, Spencer's husband was diagnosed with an advanced terminal illness and so she was set on course to confront rebirth in...
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  • Behold the Dark Gray Man
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    Behold the Dark Gray Man

    Katharine Campbell's father Sholto Douglas was the hero of her childhood, an unconventional senior commander in the Royal Air Force described as 'a gloriously contentious character'. Following childhood abandonment and poverty, Sholto rose through the...
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  • The Last Queen
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    The Last Queen

    In 2020, the Queen finally appeared to be at ease in the modern world, helped by the new generation of Windsors. But then Harry and Meghan announced that they were leaving 'The Firm', and Prince Andrew was relieved of his duties...
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  • Kensington Palace
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    Kensington Palace

    For more than 200 years the younger members of the British royal family - including future monarchs - have lived at Kensington Palace, alongside royal aunts and uncles, distant cousins and assorted aristocratic eccentrics. Kensington Palace has...
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    Violent Cases - 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition
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    Violent Cases - 30th Anniversary Collector's Edition

    Before The Sandman, there was Violent Cases, the first teaming of multi award-winning writer Neil Gaiman and innovative artist Dave McKean.Now, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of this seminal work, Violent Cases is being re-issued in a hardcover...
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    From Crimea with Love
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    From Crimea with Love

    In the summer of 1992, Jason Salkey was cast in a role that would change his life forever. Sharpe's Rifles, a Napoleonic war drama, was to be shot in the Crimean Peninsula. Little did the producers know that they would be sending Jason and the crew to...
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  • A Living Medicine
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    A Living Medicine

    A sweeping biography of the visionary behind bone marrow transplantation and the story of the diseases cured by Don Thomas's discovery.In the last half of the twentieth century, Thomas himself discovered a cure for every marrow-based disease-like...
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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.