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  • Brigit Brigit
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    Brigit

    This anthology offers a holistic picture of Brigit from her beginnings as a Celtic Goddess to her role as a Christian Saint. She appears today to her followers in various guises. The authors included in this anthology, hail from Ireland, Scotland, the...
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  • Unbridling the Tongues of Women Unbridling the Tongues of Women
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    Unbridling the Tongues of Women

    Originally published in 1985, this revised edition with an updated Introduction, is being published by the University of Adelaide Press to commemorate the anniversary of Catherine Helen Spence's death on 3 April 1910.Catherine Helen Spence was a...
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  • In the Ring with James J. Corbett In the Ring with James J. Corbett
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    In the Ring with James J. Corbett

    This is the most thoroughly researched boxing-detailed biography of James J. Corbett's career ever written. It reveals new dates, bouts, and facts, shedding fresh light on his experience, skills, and ability. It meticulously describes his bouts and...
    $79.00

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  • The Battle Between Faith and Justice The Battle Between Faith and Justice
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    The Battle Between Faith and Justice

    The Battle Between Faith and Justice is a gripping memoir that chronicles the inner turmoil and external conflicts of a person torn between her unwavering faith and her unyielding pursuit of justice. Through vivid portrayal and introspection, the author...
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  • Moments Rightly Placed Moments Rightly Placed
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    Moments Rightly Placed

    In 1964, Ray Hudson, twenty-two, landed in Unalaska village with a brand-new college degree, eager to teach. The Aleuts had seen manyoutsiders who seldom stayed more than a year. Yet Hudson was no short-timer.
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  • I Am Woman I Am Woman
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    I Am Woman

    I AM WOMAN: Expressions of Black Womanhood in America is a triumphant response to centuries of oppression, neglect, and abuse. It's a tribute to the women in America who are not seen, heard, honored, or appreciated, yet are always relied upon to support...
    $98.00

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  • My Year in France My Year in France
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    My Year in France

    My Year in France is the memoir of Harlem Hell Fighter, Sgt. Clinton J. Peterson. Born into poverty in upstate New York, his natural abilities and raw courage led him to a life of success and public recognition. Originally intended to be published by...
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  • The Man Who Mastered Gravity The Man Who Mastered Gravity
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    The Man Who Mastered Gravity

    This is the biography of a man whose story cannot be told! The Man Who Mastered Gravity is an intimate profile of Thomas Townsend Brown - a little-known scientist whose unorthodox ideas about electricity and gravity have made him the subject of...
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  • The First Ten Years in Australia The First Ten Years in Australia
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    The First Ten Years in Australia

    An Amazing story of a ten year old boys adventure of coming from England to Australia with his parents in 1959.It tells of the family's ten moves to different New South Wales towns, within ten years, whilst his father sought work, from a ferry skipper to...
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  • SOUTH SUDAN OVER 150 YEARS OF STRUGGLE SOUTH SUDAN OVER 150 YEARS OF STRUGGLE
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    SOUTH SUDAN OVER 150 YEARS OF STRUGGLE

    This slim volume is a fascinating read. The author provides a rich and finely detailed timeline of South Sudan's historic resistance to alien rule. The chronology and research is meticulous as the author maps out the attempts to own this land and control...
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  • Yellow Waters Yellow Waters
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    Yellow Waters

    Celebrated aviator and yachtswoman voyages up the Amazon by ship, river steamer and canoe in 1933. Accompanied by her constant companion Ron Adams she travels through a war zone to experience life in river towns and jungle villages.
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  • A Vicious Love Story A Vicious Love Story
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    A Vicious Love Story

    Teddie was 16 years old in 1977, when she was asked to be the translator for the Norway leg of The Sex Pistols Scandinavian tour. The book tells the inside story of the romance between Teddie and Sid Vicious. Instead of the self-destructive caricature of...
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  • Bring Out the Glamour Bring Out the Glamour
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    Bring Out the Glamour

    Please can you change the book description to read as follows:Bring out the Glamour offers a lively, funny, sardonic but accurate picture of the profession of cabin crew, shedding light on the health problems this job might potentially be responsible for...
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  • The Man Who Crossed the Tracks The Man Who Crossed the Tracks
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    The Man Who Crossed the Tracks

    Dr Ray Morland has lived a very eventful life spanning Australasia and the Americas. Coming from humble beginnings, he never thought he would be able to achieve a solid education. Dr Pamela Hatton has spent the last three years researching Ray's past,...
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  • Richard III King of Controversy Richard III King of Controversy
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    Richard III King of Controversy

    A brief yet detailed introduction to the life and controversies surrounding one of England's best known Kings; Richard III reigned for only 2 years, but his reputation has grown and intrigued generations over the centuries. His body was discovered in an...
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  • War of the Poets War of the Poets
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    War of the Poets

    Herein are some of the most entertaining and key literary wars waged between Britain's Poets in the Georgian, Bloomsbury and Modernist groups between 1919 and 1939. Its sources are fragments of a broken landscape of letters and biographies of T.S. Eliot,...
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  • Art Ensemble of Chicago - Great Black Music Art Ensemble of Chicago - Great Black Music
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    Art Ensemble of Chicago - Great Black Music

    GREAT BLACK MUSIC - ANCIENT TO THE FUTURE, originally published in Rome, 1998. This book contains interviews with Art Ensemble members, essays, poems, and photographs covering 50 years of history, and much more. Compiled, edited, and contributed to byLT...
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  • LAUREL and HARDY - The European Tours LAUREL and HARDY - The European Tours
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    LAUREL and HARDY - The European Tours

    LAUREL and HARDY - The European Tours is a companion to the much acclaimed BRITISH TOURS. It details not only the stage tours Laurel and Hardy played around Denmark, Sweden, France, and Belgium - from October 1947 to January 1948 - but the year the two...
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  • Nine O'Clock in the Morning Nine O'Clock in the Morning
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    Nine O'Clock in the Morning

    An Episcopal priest, a spiritual wilderness, and a couple who shared the fire that led to a longed-for renewal.This now classic story tells how the Charismatic Movement began and swept into churches across America. Father Dennis is still hailed as one of...
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  • Praying Hyde, Apostle of Prayer Praying Hyde, Apostle of Prayer
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    Praying Hyde, Apostle of Prayer

    John Hyde, Apostle of PrayerJohn Hyde's prayer life ranks in a league with the prayer lives of Andrew Murray, George Mueller, Charles Finney, Frank Bartleman, Rees Howells, Evan Roberts and other prayer warriors of church history. If you wish to...
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  • Jim Morrison and the Secret Gold Mine Jim Morrison and the Secret Gold Mine
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    Jim Morrison and the Secret Gold Mine

    Revealed at Last … the Monumental Mystery Inside the Music of The DoorsThe Doors were one of the most important rock groups of the 1960’s, and their longevity and popularity has defied the expectations of nearly all critics. Why? Because...
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  • Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut
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    Conversations with Kurt Vonnegut

    Kurt Vonnegut says:"I've worked with enough students to know what beginning writers are like, and if they will just talk to me for twenty minutes I can help them so much, because there are such simple things to know. Make a character want...
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  • Johann Christoph Blumhardt Johann Christoph Blumhardt
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    Johann Christoph Blumhardt

    The definitive biography of a renowned German pastor. Though relatively unknown in America, Johann Christoph Blumhardt (1805-1880) is widely recognized in his native Germany, in part because of Friedrich Zündel's landmark biography. The terrifying battle...
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  • First and Last Love First and Last Love
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    First and Last Love

    The many thoughts and gratifying memories recounted in this volume began in 1924 and ended in 2013. The memories are of the author's development as a songwriter and the many talented and likeable people he got to know. The locale is mainly New York City,...
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  • Revolt on the Clyde Revolt on the Clyde
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    Revolt on the Clyde

    No one speaks of the Red Clyde, the shop stewards movements, the establishment of the Rent Restrictions Acts, or the anti-war campaigns of 1914 - 1918 without William Gallacher emerging as one of the central figures. This autobiography relates to his...
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  • Once Blind Once Blind
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    Once Blind

    Kay Marshall Strom tells the story of how John Newton, the famous writer of Amazing Grace, was converted in a life-threatening storm and went on to become a powerful voice against the slave trade.
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    Kingdom of the Poor

    As Charles Strobel, beloved Nashville priest and champion of the unhoused, reached the end of his life in 2023, he began to contemplate the last message he wanted to leave his family, friends, and community. With the help of his niece, Katie...
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    Fighting Fascism in Europe

    On his first day in basic training in 1942, Lawrence Cane wrote his wife Grace from Fort Dix, New Jersey. "I'm in the army now?really!" he wrote, complaining, "I don't have enough time to write a decent letter."Three years later, Capt. Lawrence Cane went...
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  • From Empire to Revolution From Empire to Revolution
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    From Empire to Revolution

    From Empire to Revolution is the first biography devoted to an in-depth examination of the life and conflicted career of Sir James Wright (1716-1785). Greg Brooking uses Wright's life as a means to better understand the complex struggle for power in both...
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  • The Good Italian Girl The Good Italian Girl
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    The Good Italian Girl

      "I was determined not to simply be a good Italian girl.I was secretly dreaming big. Far bigger than what good Australian-Italian girls were expected to. I wanted to have it all - travel the world, have a successful career and tick off...
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  • Women in Black Women in Black
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    Women in Black

    England of the 1950s and 60s, a Catholic Children’s Home, and a four-year-old girl … What is life like, for a child growing up this way? Is it all doom, gloom and discipline?Free of Welfare control, officially an adult, the Women’s...
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  • No Gold in Melbourne No Gold in Melbourne
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    No Gold in Melbourne

    A prominent stream of my ancestors is Scottish, particularly the Mackie family. Scottish people began emigrating as far back as the early 1600s. Many of them went to America, but in 1852 Alexander and Rachel Mackie emigrated to Melbourne, taking with...
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  • Bob - The Short Life of Robert John Mutton Bob - The Short Life of Robert John Mutton
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    Bob - The Short Life of Robert John Mutton

    This small volume is a tribute to Robert John Mutton, universally known as Bob. His father, Eric John Mutton, self-published his memoirs in 2002. These were republished in 2012 and again in 2021. The last volume was an expanded Centenary Edition on the...
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  • BORN IN 1960?  What else happened? BORN IN 1960?  What else happened?
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    BORN IN 1960? What else happened?

    MORE INFORMATION ON THESE BOOKSOver the past 13 years the author, Ron Williams, has written this series of books that present a social history of Australia in the post-war period. They cover the period for 1939 to 1968, with one book for each year...
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  • She Walks She Walks
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    She Walks

    KAREN THORNTON  -  B.Soc.Sci (Hons) ArchaeologyWHAT IF - there are no mistakes or wrong turns in life.  WHAT IF - the path you walk is not always what it seems, and yet, exactly how it should be.  Walk With Me - find your hidden magic...
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  • A Word Before I Go A Word Before I Go
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    A Word Before I Go

    'What you are thinking about me is right,' says I, 'and it's wonderful and beautiful, and if you make it ugly for me I'll hate you for the rest of my life!' So flopping down and turning my poor brave face to the wall ... I'm...
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  • Growing up in Garfield Growing up in Garfield
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    Growing up in Garfield

    Prolific author, Jim Connelly (the Tom and Anna series, Mountain Boy, Wild Beauty, Talk of the Town, Round and About in Gippsland) goes back to his early years to bring us this revealing account of growing up in a small Victorian country town. Garfield...
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  • A Chef on ice A Chef on ice
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    A Chef on ice

    Join a talented chef as he embarks on a life-changing journey to Antarctica. From grueling recruitment to months-long expeditions, experience the challenges and triumphs of living and working in one of the most remote places on Earth. With breathtaking...
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  • My father my father My father my father
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    My father my father

    Bernard Marin, a successful Jewish accountant, was almost fifty when he was suddenly struck down by crippling headaches. The problem, however, was not just physical. Bernard’s distress was the result of years of denial over his poor relationship...
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  • The Men Behind the Myth The Men Behind the Myth
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    The Men Behind the Myth

    With meticulous research, Carol Rosenhain examines and questions the validity of Charles Bean’s assertion that the Leane family was the most famous family of soldiers in Australian history. She evaluates the contribution of its six fathers and five...
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  • Rise and Fall of a Multi-million Dollar Brand Rise and Fall of a Multi-million Dollar Brand
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    Rise and Fall of a Multi-million Dollar Brand

    I DID IT MY WAY...When a mission to help a forgotten Pacific People and an unorthodox idea is hatched in a family's garage and turns into a multi-million dollar global brand.This is the inspiring story of Stacey King. An accomplished Australian...
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  • Churchill's Headmaster Churchill's Headmaster
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    Churchill's Headmaster

    Winston Churchill is Britain’s national hero. His prep school headmaster was a sadist who almost ruined Churchill’s life. This first ever biography of Churchill’s headmaster pulls these myths apart. Churchill emerges as an intelligent...
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  • Money Family Sex & Happiness Money Family Sex & Happiness
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    Money Family Sex & Happiness

    What would it mean to you to meet every day with serenity and calm? How would it affect your life to handle every situation with grace and without worry?These are not dreams - if you're willing to do the work, these outcomes are not only possible,...
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  • Better Than Cure Better Than Cure
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    Better Than Cure

    William Redfern, surgeon, sailor, mutineer, prisoner and pioneer.From his birth in approximately 1775 to joining the Royal Navy as a ship’s surgeon, it seemed William Redfern was destined for a life of relative wealth and status, but all that...
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  • A Light at the End A Light at the End
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    A Light at the End

    Funny, touching, sad, with a light of hope at the end of the tunnel.There are thousands of working actors in this country and only a handful will ever make it as rich and famous International Stars. This story is not about one of the handful.This is the...
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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.