Biteback Publishing imprint: 402 books
by Fred Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Playing sport, watching it and commentating on it have all provoked endless mirth and some unforgettable rhetorical flourishes, the best and most enduring of which can be found here in the sparkling Biteback Dictionary of Humorous Sporting Quotations. Fred Metcalf has collected these laugh-out-loud...
by Fred Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
"Politics is no laughing matter - unless you've got Fred Metcalf's Dictionary of Humorous Political Quotations. From the wit that made Boris a contender to the best of George W. Bush, this book will have you in stitches. Bankers to bin Laden, bumper stickers to Biden, and even a few topics that...
by Fred Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2014
This priceless collection of funny, irreverent, edifying, unedifying and piquant observations is jam-packed with hundreds of examples of business wit, wisdom and wisecracks. Used as directed, they're guaranteed to leave your rivals and colleagues green-eyed, grudging and positively seething with admiration...
by Fred Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
If you're Wilde about Shaw but not Shaw about Wilde, this classic collection of humorous literary quotations is the book for you. Within its pages you will find hundreds of hand-picked quotes in dozens of handy categories. All the big names are here, from Henry James to Clive James (no relation);...
The Hain Diaries
1998 - 2007
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
A selection of fascinating extracts from notes and digital recordings made by Peter Hain during his twelve years serving in government, The Hain Diaries offers an invaluable insight into the workings and workers of the New Labour Cabinet. Providing a unique record of the ups and downs of ministerial...
Making the Difference
Essays in Honour of Shirley Williams
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
To mark the occasion of Baroness Williams' eightieth birthday in July 2010, Biteback is proud to publish a collection of essays by her peers, contemporaries and proteges on the themes and issues she has campaigned on during the course of an inspirational career in politics spanning five decades. Contributors...
We Are Arrested
A Journalist's Notes from a Turkish Prison
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2016
Following this July's attempted coup, the international spotlight has fallen on Turkey's increasingly authoritarian government, led by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Already known for his attacks on press freedom, international observers fear the attempted coup has given Erdogan an excuse to further...
Making Things Happen
The Life and Original Thinking of Nigel Vinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2015
Before he was forty, Nigel Vinson - inventor, entrepreneur, philanthropist and farmer - had achieved what many struggle to achieve in a lifetime. He had created and built up a successful company based on his own ideas, floated it on the stock exchange and made more than enough money to never have...
Chance Encounters
Tales from a Varied Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
"I met Frank Sinatra through Robert Maxwell. That's if you can be said to have met someone who was on a private jet with you for fourteen hours and never spoke to you." So begins Chance Encounters, a charming insight into the extraordinary people, places and politics experienced in one varied...
The Alchemists
The INEOS Story – An Industrial Giant Comes of Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2018
One of the world’s top 40 manufacturing companies, one of the largest global petrochemicals producers and the biggest private company in the UK, INEOS has risen to prominence over the past twenty years led by three unassuming northern grammar school boys: majority owner Jim Ratcliffe and his business...
by Arnaud Ramsay
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev ranks in the top 200 wealthiest people in the world, according to Forbes Magazine.
Since December 2011 he has been the Chairman of AS Monaco, regenerating the famous football club, and taking it from the bottom of the French Ligue 2 to the semi-finals of...
George Osborne
The Austerity Chancellor
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2012
"Ganesh's dissection of what has driven the intellectual and political revival of the Tories is forensic and incisive."- Anne McElvoy, Mail on Sunday"A lively account of the Chancellor's career ... contains a great deal of fascinating new information."- Peter Oborne, Daily Telegraph...
The Man Who Was George Smiley
The Life of John Bingham
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2013
Investigator, interrogator, intellectual hero: the perfect inspiration for the perfect spy. This first full-length biography traces the life of the remarkable and engaging John Bingham, the man behind John le Carré's George Smiley. The heir to an Irish barony and a spirited young journalist, John...
A British Subject
How to Make It as an Immigrant in the Best Country in the World
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2019
FOREWORD by David Cameron
Fleeing Idi Amin's regime, seventeen year-old Ugandan Indian immigrant Dolar Popat landed at Heathrow in 1971 with just £10 and a cardboard suitcase to his name but with everything to prove.
Fuelled by a tenacious entrepreneurial spirit, a sharp talent for...