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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The Wentworths Father and Son by John Ritchie
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The True Story of Jimmy Governor by Stephan Williams and Laurie Moore
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In search of Gandhi by Richard Attenborough
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There's Gold by Constance Sullivan edited by Kitty Barnes
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Nothing over half a crown: A personal history of the founder of the G.J. Coles stores by Judith McLaughlin
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Only Our Gloves On by Pat Studdy-Clift
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Horsebells and Hobblechains by Jeff Hill
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Sold outFull Circle by George Conomy
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Sold outRachel by Jeff McGill
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Fifteen Hundred Down the Murranji by Bob Lunney
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The Gordon Bennett Story by Frank Legg | Biography of WWII Australian General (1965, Hardcover)
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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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