Biteback Publishing

This article is about the publisher. For the Malaysian animal rights campaign, see Bite Back.

Biteback Publishing
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
ImprintsThe Robson Press
Official websitewww.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] and Andrew Pierce's bestselling [10] memoir Finding Margaret (2024), about his search for his birth mother.[11]

As of 2014 around 20% of the company's sales are ebooks.[12]

  1. ^ "Sales & rights | Biteback Publishing". Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. ^ a b "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. ^ [hhttps://www.amazon.co.uk/charts/2024-05-19/mostsold/nonfiction?ref=chrt_bk_dx_intra_sd_nf "Amazon Charts - Most Sold = Non-Fiction - Week of 19 May 2024"]. Amazon UK. 26 May 2024. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  11. ^ Lillywhite, Maisie (18 June 2024). "Andrew Pierce's 'hard' mission to find his birth mum". BBC News. Retrieved 16 September 2024.
  12. ^ Dale, Iain (2 July 2014). "BITEBACK PUBLISHING IS FIVE YEARS OLD". Iain Dale's blog. Retrieved 27 November 2015.