Biteback Publishing

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Biteback Publishing
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Founded2009
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Headquarters locationHull
DistributionMarston Book Services (UK)
Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US)
NewSouth Books (Australia)
Pansing Distribution (Singapore) [1]
Publication typesBooks
Imprints The Robson Press
Official website www.bitebackpublishing.com

Biteback Publishing is a British publisher based in Hull concentrating mainly on political titles. It was incorporated, as a private limited company with share capital, in 2009. [2] It was jointly owned by its managing director Iain Dale [3] and by Michael Ashcroft's Political Holdings Ltd, [4] [2] until 2018 when Dale stepped down to focus on his television and radio work. [5] Biteback Publishing has published several books by Ashcroft including Call Me Dave , his controversial 2015 biography of David Cameron. [6]

Other titles include Out in the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier (2013) by James Wharton, [7] The Left's Jewish Problem (2016) by Dave Rich, and Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World (2017) by investigative journalist James Ball. [8]

More recently, the company has published Jesse Norman's first novel, The Winding Stair (2023), which won the 2023 Parliamentary Book Award for Nonfiction or Fiction by a Parliamentarian, [9] Ten Years To Save The West by Liz Truss [10] and Andrew Pierce's bestselling [11] memoir Finding Margaret (2024), about his search for his birth mother. [12]

It has been announced Biteback will publish the authorised biography of entrepreneur Denis Lynn, written by Jago Pearson, in 2026. [13]

As of 2014 around 20% of the company's sales are ebooks. [14]

References

  1. ↑ "Sales & rights | Biteback Publishing" . Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Biteback Publishing Limited". Endole. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Wharton, James. "Biting Back". authoright. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  4. ↑ Pickard, Jim (31 March 2015). "Lord Ashcroft retires from House of Lords". Financial Times . Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  5. ↑ "Iain Dale steps down at Biteback and Andy McNab takes on advisory role to guide Biteback into next stage of growth". Biteback Publishing. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  6. ↑ "Michael Ashcroft". Biteback Publishing. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Out In The Army My Life as a Gay Soldier by James Wharton" . Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. ↑ Onwuemezi, Natasha. "Investigation into post-truth to Biteback". The Bookseller . Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  9. ↑ Anderson, Porter (7 February 2024). "In London: Fêting the New Parliamentary Book Award Winners". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  10. ↑ Maguire, Patrick (17 April 2024). "Ten Years to Save the West by Liz Truss review — as readable as a crisp packet". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  11. ↑ "Amazon Charts - Most Sold = Non-Fiction - Week of 19 May 2024". Amazon UK. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  12. ↑ Lillywhite, Maisie (18 June 2024). "Andrew Pierce's 'hard' mission to find his birth mum". BBC News. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  13. ↑ "From streets of Belfast to multi-million-pound food empire, biography chronicles life of late NI entrepreneur Denis Lynn". Belfast News Letter. 11 November 2024. Retrieved 4 January 2025.
  14. ↑ Dale, Iain (2 July 2014). "BITEBACK PUBLISHING IS FIVE YEARS OLD". Iain Dale's blog. Retrieved 27 November 2015.


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