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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Harry & Meghan: The Royal Wedding Book by Halima Sadat - 9781841658063
$9.00
Harry & Meghan: The Royal Wedding Book
Halima Sadat
Since the announcement from Kensington Palace that Harry and Meghan had chosen St George's Chapel...
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$21.50
Harry and Ike
Steve Neal
Harry S. Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower worked more closely between 1945 and 1952 than...
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Hans-Georg Gadamer by Jean Grondin - 9780300098419
$26.50
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Jean Grondin
Drawing on interviews with Gadamer and his contemporaries, Gadamer's personal correspondence and archival research, Grondin...
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Guilty Thing by Frances Wilson (Chester University) - 9780374537258
$14.95
Guilty Thing
Frances Wilson (Chester University)
National Book Critics Circle Award, Biographers International Organization Plutarch Award and Los Angeles Times Book...
Graham Greene by Richard Greene (University of Toronto) - 9780393066425
$22.95
Graham Greene
Richard Greene (University of Toronto)
One of the undisputed masters of twentieth-century English prose, Graham Greene (1904-1991) wrote tens of...
Grace and Grit by Ken Wilber - 9781611808490
$15.50
Grace and Grit
Ken Wilber
Acclaimed philosopher Ken Wilber shares the heart-wrenching journey through his wife's illness and eventual death...
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$10.50
Golden 306
Ralph Len
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$13.50
General Leonidas Polk, C.S.A.
Joseph H. Parks
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General Ulysses S. Grant by Edward Longacre - 9780306815416
$15.00
General Ulysses S. Grant
Edward Longacre
In this new biography of General Ulysses S. Grant, acclaimed Civil War historian, Edward G....
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$11.95
Geisha of Gion
Iwasaki Mineko
$11.50
Gabriel Of Gundagai
Butcher Cliff
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From the War Diaries of H.J. Pohl by Raimund Pohl - 9781921054228
$12.50
From the War Diaries of H.J. Pohl
Raimund Pohl
He was forcibly conscripted into the German army and posted to the Russian front. His...
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Friendaholic by Elizabeth Day - 9780008641542
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Friendaholic
Elizabeth Day
THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Bravely revealing' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'Funny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic...
$9.00
Fred Hollows : An Autobiography
Fred Hollows
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Flash Count Diary by Darcey Steinke - 9781786898128
$11.95
Flash Count Diary
Darcey Steinke
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flushes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she...
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship by Anne de Courcy - 9781474617420
$14.50
Five Love Affairs and a Friendship
Anne de Courcy
Born in March 1896, Nancy Cunard was a great beauty, rich, promiscuous, with a mesmeric...
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Finding Freedom by Omid Scobie - 9780008424114
$11.50
Finding Freedom
Omid Scobie
INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER * NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER * ONE...
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool by Peter Turner - 9781509860425
$8.50
Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool
Peter Turner
On 29 September 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life....
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$9.95
Fever Pitch
Hornby Nick
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson - 9780007204496
$24.99
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
'We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began...
Fashion is Freedom by Tala Raasi - 9781925344974
$12.00
Fashion is Freedom
Tala Raasi
After a raid by religious police, 16-year-old Tala found herself in prison and sentenced to...
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$5.50
Falling Into Grace
St Rain, Justice
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Everything in Moderation by Daniel Finkelstein - 9780008356613
$10.50
Everything in Moderation
Daniel Finkelstein
'I've never met Danny Finkelstein but I think I'm in love with him. His book...
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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton - 9780241982105
$26.99
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton
The wildly funny Sunday Times bestseller about growing up and navigating all kinds of love...
$22.95
Evelyn Waugh
Philip Eade
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE GUARDIAN, SUNDAY TIMES AND FINANCIAL TIMES...
Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life by Michael Katakis - 9781471172151
$22.95
Ernest Hemingway: Artifacts From a Life
Michael Katakis
For many, Ernest Hemingway remains more a compilation of myths than a person: soldier, sportsman,...
Encounters and Destinies by Stefan Zweig (Author) - 9781782273462
$12.95
Encounters and Destinies
Stefan Zweig (Author)
'The European voice... sparkling with poetic brilliance' - TLS'Zweig's accumulated historical and cultural studies [are]...
Endurance by Scott Kelly - 9780857524768
$9.00
Endurance
Scott Kelly
*As featured on BBC Breakfast, Radio 5Live and Steve Wright in the Afternoon on BBC...
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