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.
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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Daughters of the Bamboo Grove
Barbara Demick
'Excellent...entrancing and disturbing.' The New York Times One of the world's best investigative journalists tells...
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Cult Bride
Liz Cameron
How are people like you and me brainwashed into cults? In her gap year after...
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The Many Lives of James Lovelock
Jonathan Watts
Based on over eighty hours of interviews with Lovelock and unprecedented access to his personal...
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Let's Make Things Better
Gidon Lev
"To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope?...
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Fallen
Mick Conefrey
'Mick Conefrey's Fallen is a marvellously researched and written story about the enigma of George...
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The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old
Sophy Burnham
The Wonder and Happiness of Being Old is a timeless introspection on age, love, passion,...
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This is My Sea
Miriam Mulcahy
Over the course of seven difficult years Miriam Mulcahy lost her mother, father and sister,...
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An Uneasy Inheritance
Polly Toynbee
***Chosen as a 2023 non-fiction highlight in the Guardian, Financial Times, New Statesman, The Tablet...
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Devils, Lusts and Strange Desires
Richard Bradford (University of Ulster, UK)
NOMINATED FOR THE H.R.F. KEATING AWARD, 2022. 'My New Year's Eve Toast: to all the...
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Ferryman
Katia Ariel
**Shortlisted, Shalom Collective Australian Jewish Writer Awards 2026, Leslie and Sophie Caplan Award for Jewish...
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Bread of Angels
Patti Smith
'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year'...
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The Rebel Romanov
Helen Rappaport
'What a wonderful book! The storytelling, the research, the deep love of her subject --...
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Edith's Story
Edith Velmans
THE EXTRAORDINARY TRUE STORY OF HOW ONE YOUNG GIRL ESCAPED THE HOLOCAUST 'It holds you...
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Mao's Last Dancer
Li Cunxin
One of the most beloved Australian autobiographies of all time. In a small, desperately poor...
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Knife
Salman Rushdie
The Instant Sunday Times #1 Bestseller - a moving, life-affirming memoir about survival and the...
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Enzo Ferrari
Luca Dal Monte
**DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK** Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, this is the...
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Damaged
Cathy Glass
The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller. At just eight years old, Jodie is violent, aggressive...
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Broken Brains
Jamila Rizvi
A personal book about physical brain health and mental brain health, and how they coexist...
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Like a Queen
Hall Constance
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Mother Mary Comes To Me
Arundhati Roy
The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God...
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Notes to John
Joan Didion
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Utterly fascinating' NEW YORK TIMES 'An act of intimate...
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Matriarch
Tina Knowles
The #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER and OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB PICK 'A must-read memoir that...
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My Next Breath
Jeremy Renner
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'What a journey to wisdom ... a must read' -...
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Inconvenient Women
Jacqueline Kent
Australia's crusaders for women's voting rights and the radical feminists of the 1970s changed lives...
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Jane Austen's Notebook
Sophie Collins
Jane Austen's Notebook is a beautiful, insightful biography with a difference, offering readers a full...
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Hear Me Roar
Erna Walraven
In the early 1980s, when Erna Walraven decided to follow her dreams and become one...
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Find Me at the Jaffa Gate
Micaela Sahhar
**Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards 2026, Non-Fiction** **Winner, NSW Literary Awards 2026, UTS Glenda Adams...
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Frida Kahlo's Love Letters
Suzanne Barbezat
'I don't know how to write love letters. But I wanted to tell you that...
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