Biteback Publishing is a British publisher based in
Hull, and concentrating mainly on political titles. It was incorporated, as a private limited company with share capital, in 2009.
It was jointly owned by its managing director
Iain Dale and by
Michael Ashcroft's Political Holdings Ltd,
until 2018 when Dale stepped down to focus on his television and radio work. Biteback Publishing has published several books by Ashcroft including ''
Call Me Dave'', his 2015 biography of
David Cameron
David William Donald Cameron, Baron Cameron of Chipping Norton (born 9 October 1966) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016. Until 2015, he led the first coalition government in the UK s ...
.
Other titles include ''Out in the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier'' (2013) by
James Wharton, ''
The Left's Jewish Problem'' (2016) by
Dave Rich, and ''Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World'' (2017) by investigative journalist
James Ball.
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, ''
Ten Years To Save The West'' by Liz Truss and
Andrew Pierce's bestselling memoir ''Finding Margaret'' (2024), about his search for his birth mother.
Biteback announced they will publish the authorised biography of entrepreneur Denis Lynn, written by Jago Pearson, in 2026.
As of 2014 around 20% of the company's sales are ebooks.
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Book publishing companies based in London
Publishing companies established in 2009
Political book publishing companies
2009 establishments in England
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