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.

Showing 1680 products
Looking for Enid by Duncan McLaren - 9781846271151
$16.50
Looking for Enid
Duncan McLaren
This is a strikingly inventive and unusual portrait of the most successful English writer for...
Second Hand
$10.95
Lizzie Siddal The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel
Hawksley Lucinda
Live Your Life by Amanda Kloots - 9780063078253
$22.50
Live Your Life
Amanda Kloots
Amanda Kloots bravely reflects on love, loss, and life with her husband, Broadway star, and...
Second Hand
Little Sister by Lana Wood - 9780063237445
From $11.00
Little Sister: My Investigation into the Mysterious Death of Natalie Wood
Lana Wood
In this memoir, Lana Wood investigates the mysterious drowning of her sister, the actress Natalie...
Second Hand
Lincoln by Richard Carwardine - 9781400096022
$12.95
Lincoln
Richard Carwardine
As a defender of national unity, a leader in war, and the emancipator of slaves,...
Lion: A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley - 9780143572305
$8.50
Lion: A Long Way Home
Saroo Brierley
A moving and inspirational true story of survival and triumph against incredible odds, celebrating the...
Second Hand
Lions and Shadows by Christopher Isherwood (New Directions) - 9780374535308
$12.95
Lions and Shadows
Christopher Isherwood (New Directions)
Lions and Shadows blends autobiography and fiction to describe the true education of a writer...
$19.95
Limonov
Emmanuel Carrere
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most...
Like Father, Like Son by Michael Parkinson - 9781529362473
$13.50
Like Father, Like Son
Michael Parkinson
'a quietly impressive book, which does something most celebrity autobiographies shy away from: it seeks...
Second Hand
Life Force by Barry du Bois - 9781760682996
$11.50
Life Force
Barry du Bois
Faced with the recurrence of his incurable cancer Channel 10's The Living Room presenter Barry...
Second Hand
Letters From Timor by Graeme Ramsden - 9781921941009
$12.00
Letters From Timor
Graeme Ramsden
Letters from Timor provides a very different and personal perspective of Australian Military Operations. Through...
Second Hand
$9.50
Letters and Liars
Joanna Mendelssohn
In 1930 Norman Lindsay's novel, "Redheap", was refused entry into Australia and remained a prohibited...
Second Hand
Let Me Go by Casey Watson - 9780008375577
$8.00
Let Me Go
Casey Watson
Let Me Go is the powerful new memoir from foster carer and Sunday Times bestselling...
Second Hand
Let Her Fly by Ziauddin Yousafzai - 9780753552971
$12.50
Let Her Fly
Ziauddin Yousafzai
In this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving...
Second Hand
Lessons by Gisele Bundchen - 9781760529543
$10.00
Lessons
Gisele Bundchen
In this book I've laid out the lessons that have helped me live a more...
Second Hand
Latest Readings by Clive James - 9780300213195
From $13.00
Latest Readings
Clive James
An esteemed literary critic shares his final musings on books, his children, and his own...
Second Hand
$7.50
Last Post
E.W.Robinson- Horley
Second Hand
Larrimah by Caroline Graham - 9781760877835
$34.99
Larrimah
Caroline Graham
Larrimah: hot, barren, a speck of dust in the centre of the nothingness of outback...
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown by Jane Brown - 9781845951795
$26.50
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown
Jane Brown
The first fully-rounded biography of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, the genius who created the English landscape...
Second Hand
Lady in Waiting by Anne Glenconner - 9781529359107
From $13.95
Lady in Waiting
Anne Glenconner
**SPECTATOR BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2020** **SUNDAY TIMES FAVOURITE PAPERBACKS OF 2020** 'The best royal...
$23.50
Kenneth Tynan Letters
Kenneth Tynan
The drama critic Kenneth Tynan led opinion, roused tempers and sparked the theatrical explosion of...
Second Hand
$11.00
Keeping on Keeping on
Alan Bennett
A collection of Bennett's diaries and essays, covering 2005 to 2015 Alan Bennett's third collection...
Keeping On Keeping On by Alan Bennett - 9781781256503
$10.50
Keeping On Keeping On
Alan Bennett
Following the phenomenally successful Writing Home and Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On contains Bennett's...
Second Hand
Jump: From the Streets to the Suites by Larry Miller - 9780063242845
$14.50
Jump: From the Streets to the Suites
Larry Miller
One of the most successful Black businessmen in the country, who has led Nike's Jordan...
Second Hand
Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me... by Stevie Phillips - 9781250065773
$17.50
Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue & Me...
Stevie Phillips
No star burned more ferociously than Judy Garland. And nobody witnessed Garland's ferocious talent at...
Second Hand
Journey of a Thousand Storms by Kooshyar Karimi - 9780670079407
$13.50
Journey of a Thousand Storms
Kooshyar Karimi
In Journey of a Thousand Storms Kooshyar Karimi, author of Leila's Secret, tells his gripping...
Second Hand
$28.50
Joseph Conrad
Jeffrey Meyers
The outlines of Conrad's life are well known - how he spent 20 years at...
Second Hand
John Le Carre by Adam Sisman - 9780062106285
$14.95
John Le Carre
Adam Sisman
"An insightful and highly readable portrait of a writer and a man who has often...