Christmas Catalogue - Biographies & Memoir
Some stories are stranger and more stirring than fiction. The 2026 Biographies & Memoirs collection at Harry Hartog Bookseller gathers unforgettable lives and lived experiences. These books make thoughtful gifts for readers who crave meaning, inspiration, and true stories.
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The Make-Believe
Hannah Murray
From the actor in Skins and Games of Thrones, a deeply intimate, shockingly honest memoir...
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Swan Song
Charles Spencer
Beautiful. Beloved. Hunted. The extraordinary life and death of Diana, as told by her brother,...
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The Lucky Son
Li Cunxin
The sequel to Mao's Last Dancer - the highly anticipated follow up to one of...
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The Land and its People
David Sedaris
'Very little makes me laugh. I would say the one exception is anything by David...
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Things I Told My Notes App
Milly Goldsmith
The candid, laugh-out-loud guide on self-love and learning to choose yourself from a self-proclaimed oversharer...
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I Can't Tell You But I Will
Magda Szubanski
The second memoir from a beloved Australian icon of TV and cinema follows Magda's journey...
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Enough Said
Alan Bennett
20 September. Have a notion for a radio series - Awkward Conversations. Enough Said is...
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The King Under the Mountain
D.J. Taylor
'It is no surprise that his biographers have often struggled, which makes D.J. Taylor the...
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Tech Bros
John Stensholt
The extraordinary story of Atlassian - how two university friends with a billion-dollar idea created...
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Can You Handle a Girl Like Me?
Bek Condello
Growing up, marrying in and ultimately abandoning an Australian cult. Then learning how to make...
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Is It Too Late to Make a Run for It?
Judi Dench
The book we've all been waiting for, national treasure Judi Dench opens her almost inexhaustible...
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Ghost Stories
Siri Hustvedt
'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY 'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with...
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Only Ever Evonne
Evonne Goolagong Cawley
'The most elegant player to have ever graced a tennis court, Evonne brought her career...
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All Heart
Mick Fanning
Deeply personal and inspirational, All Heart is the definitive memoir of one of Australia's greatest...
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Hawking
Graham Farmelo
'When one is faced with the possibility of early death, it makes one realise that...
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How to Be Hopeful
Caitlin Moran
A joyful journey into how to live more hopefully in hard times, from million-copy Sunday...
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My Old Man and Me: A story of escape, sacrifice and survival
Kim Huynh
Forty years after Thiet Huynh smuggled his family out of Vietnam, he faces a final...
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Last Night I Dreamt
Paul de Zulueta
An intimate, revelatory family biography of the iconic writer Daphne du Maurier and her famous...
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In the Realm of the Last Man
Francis Fukuyama
'One of the West's most interesting public intellectuals' THE TIMES 'None is more eminent or...
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An Unexpected Life
Gloria Steinem
Feminist icon Gloria Steinem's inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and her path...
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Knives and Spoons
Alasdair Gill
From working in some of London's most prestigious restaurants to scrubbing fat from kitchen floors,...
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I Wrote My Own Eulogy
Bradley Dryburgh
What if you sat down and wrote your own eulogy while you were still alive?...
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