Biographies Books

Sidebar Sidebar Sidebar
  • All Hell Let Loose
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    All Hell Let Loose

    A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen;...
    $25.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Faster Than Lightning
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Faster Than Lightning

    The autobiography of the fastest man of all time, eight-time Olympic gold medalist, eleven-time World Champion, and a superstar whose talent and charisma have made him one of the most famous people on the planet. Whether you know athletics or not, and...
    $25.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • David Mitchell
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    David Mitchell

    David Mitchell, who you may know for his inappropriate anger on every TV panel show except Never Mind the Buzzcocks, his look of permanent discomfort on C4 sex comedy Peep Show, his online commenter-baiting in The Observer or just for wearing a stick-on...
    $20.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Children of God Storybook Bible
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Children of God Storybook Bible

    A beautiful book of illustrated Bible stories, retold by the world’s best-loved cleric. Nobel prizewinner, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, re-tells over fifty of his favourite Bible stories for an audience of young readers.From classics such as the stories of...
    $25.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas

    Stylish reissue of a classic first published in the 1970s: Hunter S Thompson’s ether-fuelled, savage journey to the heart of the American Dream. ‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold… And suddenly...
    $25.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Papillon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Papillon

    A classic memoir of prison breaks and adventure – a bestselling phenomenon of the 1960s Condemned for a murder he had not committed, Henri Charrière (nicknamed Papillon) was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana. Forty-two days after his arrival he...
    $23.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Little Bit Little Bit
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Little Bit

    'She was a good person when she wasn't drunk.' Debbie's earliest memory of her mother is that her mother was not there, but any story of neglect always has two sides. When Debbie's daughter, Heather, says she wants to write a book about her upbringing,...
    RRP: $38.50
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    A View from the Horizon A View from the Horizon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A View from the Horizon

    In A View from the Horizon one of South Australia's most influential  political reformers  tells his life story with frank disclosure. Five years after he graduated as a lawyer, aged 28, Peter Duncan entered the South...
    RRP: $44.00
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Widow Clicquot The Widow Clicquot
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Widow Clicquot

    "Narrative history that fizzes with life and feeling." -- Benjamin Wallace, New York Times bestselling author of The Billionaire's VinegarThe New York Times bestselling biography of the visionary young woman who built a champagne empire, became a legend,...
    $27.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Life and Myth of Charmian Clift Life and Myth of Charmian Clift
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Life and Myth of Charmian Clift

    Charmian Clift's writing captivated readers across the nation. Her life inspired legends and fascinated thousands. Now at last here is the real story. Charmian Clift was born in Kiama, New South Wales, in 1923. In this close-knit seaside community Clift...
    $45.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Our King Our King
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Our King

    The definitive biography of King Charles with exclusive material and insight from a source close to the King himself.
    $36.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Image coming soon
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Straight Lady

    On October 20, 1882, future actress Margaret Dumont was born in Brooklyn, New York. A Broadway regular by the 1920s, Dumont found lasting fame once she started appearing with the Marx Brothers. Tall and regal in bearing, her character provided the...
    $59.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Red Professor Red Professor
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Red Professor

    Fred Rose's life takes us through rip-roaring tales from Australia's northern frontier to enthralling intellectual tussles over kinship systems and political dramas as he runs rings around his Petrov inquisitors.More than any other injustice, the...
    RRP: $39.94
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    A War of Loves A War of Loves
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A War of Loves

    In A War of Loves, David Bennett describes his unexpected journey from gay activism and a distrust of religion to becoming a follower of Jesus, a journey that included pivotal relationships, supernatural encounters with God, and ultimately a new...
    RRP: $20.89
    $20.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Secrets Beyond the Screen
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Secrets Beyond the Screen

    How well does anyone know their family?Anita Jacoby AM is one of Australia’s most distinguished television producers. Now she uncovers one of the most extraordinary stories of all, long hidden within her own family.The father Anita knew had fled...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Gough and Me
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Gough and Me

    When Gough Whitlam moves into her street in Cabramatta in 1957, eight-year-old Christine has little idea how her new neighbour, one of the most visionary and polarising political leaders of Australia, would shape the direction of her life. Born to...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Rebellious Daughters
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Rebellious Daughters

    Good daughters hold their tongues, obey their elders and let their families determine their destiny. Rebellious daughters are just the opposite. In Rebellious Daughters, some of Australia’s most talented female writers share intimate and touching stories...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Cherry Picker's Daughter
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Cherry Picker's Daughter

    This second edition of The Cherry Picker's Daughter is an exquisite portrait of growing up Aboriginal on the fringes of outback towns in NSW in the mid-twentieth century. Its an important book for school libraries and classrooms, with profound insights...
    RRP: $24.95
    $24.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Dear Mutzi
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Dear Mutzi

    Harry Peters - formerly Hermann Ludwig Pollnow, known to his family as Mutzi - was born in Berlin in 1920. As a teenager, he fled Nazi Germany and landed in rural Australia. Harry's parents, Max and Edith, stayed and perished in Nazi camps.This story, of...
    RRP: $34.99
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Bold Types
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Bold Types

    In Bold Types, Patricia Clarke recounts the chequered journey of women journalists in the fight for gender equality from 1860 to the end of World War II. These were independent, adventurous women who ventured far and wide in search of news, relevance and...
    $20.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Time Flies / Time Flies Too
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Time Flies / Time Flies Too

    Enjoy all of Al Clark's absorbing recollections in this combined bundle of both of his memoirs.Time FliesTime Fliesis an idiosyncratic memoir with a distinctive voice and a sense of the absurd: a wistful, reflective, sometimes comic view of a...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    In Exile from St Petersburg
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    In Exile from St Petersburg

    With a passport stamped 'never to return', St Petersburg intellectual and publisher Abram Kagan was expelled by Lenin in 1922, ending up in Berlin, where his young son Anatol would read the proofs of Leon Trotsky's History of the Russian Revolution. But...
    RRP: $29.95
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Clever Man
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Clever Man

    Clever Man: The Life of Paddy Compass Namadbara offers a unique perspective on the life and making of this Aboriginal Western Arnhem clever man or marrkidjbu.Born at the end of the 19th Century when the Western world had scarcely touched Arnhem Land,...
    RRP: $39.95
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Telltale
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Telltale

    'I was confined, locked into my library, tracing my heartbeats from way, way back.'In Telltale, Carmel Bird seizes on an enforced isolation to re-read a rich dispensary of books from her past. A rule she sets herself is that she can consult only...
    RRP: $32.99
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Talk of Treasure
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Talk of Treasure

    Jane Carswell began her working life at Pegasus Press shortly after its audacious publication of Janet Frame's novel Owls Do Cry, and years later she went on to write an award-winning memoir called Under the Huang Jiao Tree:...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Mysterious Mr Jacob
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Mysterious Mr Jacob

    'Oneof the most exciting  narrative historiesto come out of India.' William DalrympleIt was a scandal thatrocked the highest echelons of the British Raj. In 1891, a notorious jewellerand curio dealer from Simla offered to sell the world's...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Yornadaiyn Woolagoodja

    This stunning book is a biography and a generous sharing of Yorna's Culture and traditional beliefs. Explore the meaning of Country, Lalai ('Creation'), Wandjina, Woongudd (the 'Snake'), in the author's Country in the Kimberley region of Western...
    $45.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • The Boy from Birdum
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Boy from Birdum

    Bill Dempsey is a humble achiever. He is known primarily as a champion footballer with West Perth and the Darwin Buffaloes. A premiership captain who played over 400 games in 20 seasons in Perth and the Northern Territory, and a member of the...
    $33.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Ninu Grandmothers' Law
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Ninu Grandmothers' Law

    ' This is my knowledge. It has been handed down to me from my grandmothers and grandfathers, my mothers and my fathers. I am sharing it with you because I want people to know about my life.'Ninu Grandmothers' Law is a definitive account of a traditional...
    $50.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Jack of Hearts QX11594
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Jack of Hearts QX11594

    'It has been over 100 years since our father was born, 80 years since Father enlisted in the AIF, and over 60 years since he died. How do we go beyond what we knew from our Mother's stories of him? The past, present and future need to be spoken about and...
    $28.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Last Truck Out
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Last Truck Out

    WWII 1942-Broome, pearling town on the far north coast of Western Australia. The enemy was snaking its way towards the Australian coastline. Broome was being evacuated. The resident Japanese and their families had already been interned. Aboriginal...
    $23.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • Once in Broome
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Once in Broome

    In this montage of memoir, art, silk paintings, and photographs, Sally Bin Demin remembers her childhood growing up in Broome during the 1940s and 50s. As one of the 'after the war kids', Sally's lifestyle was embedded in the many cultural traditions of...
    $28.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • A Boy's Life
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    A Boy's Life

    Age range 12 to 17Autobiographical study by a celebrated Aboriginal poet and playwright, who writes of his boyhood in the south-west of Western Australia during the depression years of the 1920s and 30s. Written with humour and compassion, this book...
    $19.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    John Berger and Me
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    John Berger and Me

    The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the...
    RRP: $32.95
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    How to Be Between
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    How to Be Between

    How to Be Between is a memoir about female facial hair, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and negotiating identity for those visibly between gender binaries. Young women's bodies are relentlessly scrutinised and judged, so for most, the appearance of facial...
    RRP: $32.95
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Battarbee and Namatjira
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Battarbee and Namatjira

    Battarbee and Namatjira is the biography of two artists Rex Battarbee and Albert Namatjira, one white Australian from Warrnambool in Victoria, the other Aboriginal, of the Arrernte people, from the Hermannsburg Mission south of Alice Springs. From their...
    RRP: $32.95
    $32.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    The Land I Came Through Last
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    The Land I Came Through Last

    The title of Robert Gray's autobiography is drawn from a poem by the famous Australian poet Christopher Brennan, 'The land I came thro' last was dumb with night / a limbo of defeated glory, a ghost'. There is more glory than defeat in this work, though,...
    RRP: $34.95
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Horrie the Wog-Dog (New Edition)
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Horrie the Wog-Dog (New Edition)

    The true story of Horrie the Wog-Dog who was adopted by the Australian Signal Platoon of the Machine Gun Battalion, in spite of all rules against keeping pets, and how Horrie not only won his stripes as a valuable addition to the group but had the...
    RRP: $29.99
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Elegy for Emily
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Elegy for Emily

    The short but remarkable career of American jazz guitarist, Emily Remler (1957-1990), ended with her death, amid still-disputed circumstances, in Sydney in 1990 while on tour. Emily played with virtually all the major jazz guitarists of the era and...
    RRP: $25.00
    $24.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Started Out Just Drinking Beer
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Started Out Just Drinking Beer

    THE RIOTOUS ROLLERCOASTER RIDE OF ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S GREATEST BANDS FROM 1976-2019.A superbly researched and written account of one of Australia's most popular bands, with unfettered access to all the key players, and a defacto social history of a time...
    RRP: $36.95
    $36.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Race Mathews
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Race Mathews

    An idealist as well as a pragmatist, and someone who believes passionately in equality, democracy and empowerment, Race Mathews has inspired and mentored many.Race was principal private secretary to Gough Whitlam in the lead-up to Whitlam's election as...
    RRP: $36.99
    $36.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Cathy Goes to Canberra
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Cathy Goes to Canberra

    Whenever anyone tells you that only the big parties or star candidates have a chance of winning a seat in federal parliament, just say 'Cathy McGowan'. Running as a community-backed independent candidate, Cathy won the previously safe Liberal seat of...
    RRP: $29.95
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    'I Wonder'
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    'I Wonder'

    Ken Inglis was one of Australia's most creative, wide-ranging and admired historians. During a scholarly career spanning nearly seven decades, his humane, questioning approach - summed up by the recurring query, 'I wonder...' - won him a large...
    RRP: $39.95
    $39.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Geoffrey Blainey
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Geoffrey Blainey

    Geoffrey Blainey is often described as Australia's greatest livinghistorian, a writer whose prolific output includes such iconic books about thecountry's past as The Tyranny of Distanceand Triumph of the Nomads.However, Blainey has also been a...
    RRP: $34.95
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Jean Blackburn
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Jean Blackburn

    From the maelstrom of the Depression and World War II, fromCommunist Party membership in the 1930s-1950s, and early attachment to thefeminism and peace, Jean Blackburn emerged as a significant publicintellectual. Her life work was the attachment of...
    RRP: $34.95
    $34.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added
  • sale
    Seven Big Australians
    Add to Cart The item has been added

    Seven Big Australians

    Comicactors have made a particularly strong contribution to cultural life inAustralia over the past sixty years. They have brought a range of memorablecharacters to the stage, television and film; they have transformed our imageof ourselves, helped to...
    RRP: $29.95
    $29.00

    Add to Cart The item has been added

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.