Biography

Step into the lives of remarkable people with our collection of biography and memoir books.

These books offer insight into real experiences, challenges, and achievements. Whether you're drawn to history, creativity, or human resilience, biographies and memoirs provide a powerful way to understand the world through lived experience.

At Harry Hartog Bookseller, we’ve curated a diverse range of true stories that inform, inspire, and stay with you long after reading.

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The Search Warrant by Patrick Modiano - 9781529944280
$26.99
The Search Warrant
Patrick Modiano
Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano's masterpiece- a moving memoir, a portrait of war-torn Europe and...
I Feel Bad About My Neck by Nora Ephron - 9781804999998
$26.99
I Feel Bad About My Neck
Nora Ephron
Celebrating the 20th anniversary of this brilliantly clever, funny book of essays about growing older...
What Will the Neighbours Think by Robyn Bishop - 9781923514720
$36.99
What Will the Neighbours Think
Robyn Bishop
From forced adoption to prime-time television - a life lived with grit, grace and a...
Raise Your Soul by Yanis Varoufakis - 9781529970210
$26.99
Raise Your Soul
Yanis Varoufakis
A captivating portrait of number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary...
Is It Too Early To Bitch? by Grace Rouvray - 9781761566738
$36.99
Is It Too Early To Bitch?
Grace Rouvray
We talk about romance as life's greatest love stories, but sometimes the rarest thing we'll...
I, Vera by Miranda Seymour - 9780008650391
$34.99
I, Vera
Miranda Seymour
'Vera Gedroits was a true medical heroine: outrageous, intrepid and devoted to saving lives. Miranda...
I Wanna Be Loved By You by Andrew Wilson - 9781398513440
$55.00
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Andrew Wilson
Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon. Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, Andrew Wilson's biography of Marilyn Monroe...
Conversations with My Rabbi by Nikki Goldstein - 9781460770146
$39.99
Conversations with My Rabbi
Nikki Goldstein
An unforgettable and profound book of wisdom, offering timeless teachings for living well in an...
The Loves of My Life by Edmund White - 9781526690418
$26.99
The Loves of My Life
Edmund White
***A TIMES/SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025*** 'All the no-holds-barred candour you'd expect ....
Menachem Mendel Schneerson by Ezra Glinter - 9780300222623
$39.95
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Ezra Glinter
The life and thought of Menachem Mendel Schneerson, one of the most influential-and controversial-rabbis in...
I Think of You Constantly with Love by Alfred Schmidt - 9781350026469
$50.00
I Think of You Constantly with Love
Alfred Schmidt
Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ben Richards met in the autumn of 1945, when Richards - a...
I Am Dynamite! by Sue Prideaux - 9780571336227
$24.99
I Am Dynamite!
Sue Prideaux
The Times Biography of the Year Longlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize 2019 'A strikingly...
The Complete Notebooks by Albert Camus - 9780226694818
$74.95
The Complete Notebooks
Albert Camus
The first complete translation of Albert Camus's personal notebooks written between 1933 and 1959, including...
Like a Cat Loves a Bird by James Bailey - 9781399764971
$32.99
Like a Cat Loves a Bird
James Bailey
"This is a deeply stylish, astute and illuminating biography of a fascinating writer" FRANCESCA WADE,...
The Island by Nicholas Jenkins - 9780571239023
$45.00
The Island
Nicholas Jenkins
Winner of the 2024 Warren-Brooks Award for Outstanding Literary Criticism Winner of the Northern California...
The First Fascist by Sergio Luzzatto - 9780241715819
$55.00
The First Fascist
Sergio Luzzatto
The extraordinary story of the nineteenth-century French-Italian aristocrat Marquis de Mor s, the first populist...
Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery after surviving the New Zealand volcanic eruption by Kelsey Waghorn - 9781775542919
$34.99
Surviving White Island: An inspiring memoir of physical and mental recovery after surviving the New Zealand volcanic eruption
Kelsey Waghorn
Surviving the unsurvivable. Healing from the unhealable. This is an inspiring memoir of physical and...
Mother Shadow by Cynthia Banham - 9781764239714
$32.99
Mother Shadow
Cynthia Banham
A poignant telling of the legacies of mothering Mother Shadow is a meditation on what...
Ghost Stories by Siri Hustvedt - 9781399753852
$34.99
Ghost Stories
Siri Hustvedt
'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY 'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with...
Always Home, Always Homesick by Hannah Kent - 9781761903212
$24.99
Always Home, Always Homesick
Hannah Kent
WINNER 2026 INDIE BOOK AWARDS FOR NON-FICTION 'In my brief breath of life, might I...
Israel by Goeran Rosenberg - 9780241795712
$26.99
Israel
Goeran Rosenberg
A deeply intelligent and moving reckoning with the Zionist project by one of Sweden's most...
When We See You Again by Rachel Goldberg-Polin - 9780349022604
$34.99
When We See You Again
Rachel Goldberg-Polin
Once upon a time, I was meandering down the road of life with my husband,...
Solo Mum by Choice by Lorena Otes - 9781923105607
$32.99
Solo Mum by Choice
Lorena Otes
When dating failed. Motherhood didn't. Solo Mum by Choice is an intimate, funny, and fiercely...
James Baldwin by Magdalena J. Zaborowska - 9780300288704
$26.95
James Baldwin
Magdalena J. Zaborowska
An intimate portrait of James Baldwin, offering a new understanding of his life and works...
True Crime by Patricia Cornwell - 9781408725054
$34.99
True Crime
Patricia Cornwell
'Let's start, and end, with this: Patricia Cornwell's autobiography, True Crime, could be the best...
Small Town Girls by Jayne Anne Phillips - 9780349725499
$34.99
Small Town Girls
Jayne Anne Phillips
A luminous memoir by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jayne Anne Phillips 'The painful thing about adolescence...
Rebirth by Antoun Issa - 9780733651885
$34.99
Rebirth
Antoun Issa
Antoun Issa powerfully captures his mother's true experiences of love, heartbreak and new hope during...
Inherit the Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch - 9780571403806
$34.99
Inherit the Truth
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Although my head was shaved and I had a number on my arm, I had...