Biteback Publishing
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| Founded | 2009 |
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| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Hull |
| Distribution | Marston Book Services (UK) Consortium Book Sales & Distribution (US) NewSouth Books (Australia) Pansing Distribution (Singapore)[1] |
| Publication types | Books |
| Imprints | The Robson Press |
| Official website | www |
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] Liz Truss's Ten Years To Save The West[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
[edit]- ^ "Sales & rights | Biteback Publishing". Retrieved 15 November 2017.
- ^ a b "Biteback Publishing Limited". Endole. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ Wharton, James. "Biting Back". authoright. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ Pickard, Jim (31 March 2015). "Lord Ashcroft retires from House of Lords". Financial Times. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "Michael Ashcroft". Biteback Publishing. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
- ^ "Out In The Army My Life as a Gay Soldier by James Wharton". Retrieved 16 January 2019.
- ^ Onwuemezi, Natasha. "Investigation into post-truth to Biteback". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ^ Anderson, Porter (7 February 2024). "In London: Fêting the New Parliamentary Book Award Winners". Publishing Perspectives. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Amazon Charts - Most Sold = Non-Fiction - Week of 19 May 2024". Amazon UK. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ Lillywhite, Maisie (18 June 2024). "Andrew Pierce's 'hard' mission to find his birth mum". BBC News. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Dale, Iain (2 July 2014). "BITEBACK PUBLISHING IS FIVE YEARS OLD". Iain Dale's blog. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
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