Collection: Autobiography & Biography
Autobiography & Biography
Explore Tilbrook & Co’s Autobiography & Biography collection, featuring life stories, memoirs, personal histories and biographies of remarkable people from Australia and around the world. This collection includes books on artists, writers, explorers, political figures, sportspeople, performers, pioneers, community leaders and everyday people whose stories offer insight, inspiration and connection.
From carefully researched biographies to personal memoirs and out-of-print life stories, these books reveal the people behind the events, achievements and eras that shaped our cultural, social and historical landscape. Whether you are interested in Australian history, family stories, creative lives, public figures or personal journeys, this collection brings together books that celebrate lived experience and the power of storytelling.
Tilbrook & Co is an online store located in Dubbo, New South Wales, specialising in rare, vintage, out-of-print and collectable books.
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Survive the Savage Sea by Dougal Robertson (1973, Hardcover) | True Shipwreck Survival Story
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The Restless Waterfront by James Gaby | Sydney Stevedoring Memoir (1974, Hardcover)
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Smithy: The Kingsford-Smith Story by Ward McNally | Biography of Australia’s Aviation Pioneer (1967)
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Australian Father and Son by Lord Casey | Biography of Three Generations of the Casey Family (1966, Hardcover)
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A Man of the People by Vince Kelly
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Cobbers – A Personal Record of a Journey from Essex to Australia, Tasmania & the Coral Sea (1947)
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Flaws in the glass A Self Portrait by Patrick White
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Sir John Monash by A J Smithers
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Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
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Thursday Island Nurse by Elizabeth Burchill
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Portrait of Pa Jane Lindsay's memoirs of her father Norman Lindsay by Jane Lindsay
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Reflections in the sea by Douglas Phillips-Birt
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Escape to An Island - Three Hummock Island Tasmania by Eleanor Alliston
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The home of the blizzard: The story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 by Sir Douglas Mawson
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money's Prophets: 1798-1848 by Niall Ferguson
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Belloc: A Biographical Anthology Edited by Herbert Van Thal
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On the Wallaby. A True Story About the great Depression in Australia in the 1930s by Bill Kidman
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Solo to Sydney by Francis Chichester
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An Unsentimental Bloke: The life and work of C.J. Dennis by Philip Butterss
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Gibson's Way. the Story of a Pioneer of the Macquarie Marsh Country by Joan McKenzie
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