Biteback Publishing imprint: 402 books
The Words of Our Time
Speeches that Make a Difference 2001-2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2012
This is a collection of the most influential speeches given since entering the new millennium. It is a timely book, capturing contemporary and powerful expressions of ideas and reasoning. Global in perspective, these speeches stand as unmediated and authentic testaments to the profound impact of great...
Smile for the Camera
The Double Life of Cyril Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
No politician pandered to the media's appetite for personality more than Liberal MP Cyril Smith. Instantly recognisable for his colossal build, Smith was a larger-than-life character in a world of dull grey men. Yet 'Big Cyril' was anything but the roly-poly gentle giant of popular imagination.In...
by Stuart Thomson
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Anyone who has an interest in Labour or the left needs a copy of this brilliant compendium of left-leaning quotations. The collection features all the best quotes from all the great thinkers, whether they were reactionary or revolutionary, campaigning or policy-making, thinking aloud or writing it...
Failing Intelligence
How Blair Led Us into War in Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
This is the first book on Iraq by a British intelligence official involved in the process that led to Britain taking part in the 2003 invasion. As the former head of the UK Defence Intelligence Staff's nuclear, biological and chemical section, Brian Jones is ideally placed to pronounce upon the way...
Anti-Semitism
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2015
From literary portrayals of 'the Jew' as Biblical traitor or Dickensian villain to the very real atrocities of the Holocaust and the conflicts in Israel and Palestine, the plight of the Jewish people throughout history has been as violent and volatile as the animosity towards the religion itself....
Tango 190
The David Rathband Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
On 1 July 2010, Raoul Moat was released from Durham Prison. Within forty-eight hours he had shot his ex-partner Samantha Stobbart and brutally murdered her new boyfriend, Chris Brown. In the early hours of 4 July, Police Constable David Rathband was gunned down while sitting in his patrol car in East...
Enoch at 100
A Re-evaluation of the life, politics and philosophy of Enoch Powell
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Enoch at 100 is a critical reassessment of Enoch Powell's legacy by some of the leading political figures, writers and commentators of the current age. The book covers the role of government and the state of the economy, the European Union, constitutional reform, immigration and social cohesion, climate change, energy policy and the environment, defence and foreign policy.
Black Flag Down
Counter-extremism, defeating ISIS and winning the battle of ideas
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
The West is facing a terror threat unprecedented since the Cold War: a revolution in the accessibility of violence as ISIS, al Qaeda and their allies set out to build a 21st-century theocracy of seventh-century values, stretching from Portugal to Pakistan.
We need to dramatically step up the...
by Lee Howey
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
Lee Howey was inspired to write this book after reading the autobiographies of other footballers. These were household names with glory-laden careers whose exploits on the pitch will never be forgotten. Yet, despite access to such fabulous raw material, they have mostly produced bloody awful books...
Margaret Thatcher
The Honorary Jew – How Britain’s Jews Helped Shape the Iron Lady and Her Beliefs
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Margaret Thatcher's premiership changed the face of modern Britain. Yet few people know of the critical role played by Jews in sparking and sustaining her revolution. Was this chance, choice, or simply a reflection of the fact that, as the Iron Lady herself said: ‘I just wanted a Cabinet of clever,...
Mrs Keppel
Mistress to the King
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
For Alice Keppel, it was all about appearances. Her precepts were those of the English upper classes: discretion, manners and charm. Nothing else mattered - especially when it came to her infamous affair with King Edward VII.
As the King's favourite mistress up until his death in 1910, Alice...
The Reluctant Billionaire
The Tragic Life of Gerald Grosvenor, Sixth Duke of Westminster
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
When Gerald Grosvenor, sixth Duke of Westminster, died in August 2016 he was one of the world’s richest men, his fortune estimated at just under £10 billion.
Yet he hated his wealth and spent long periods suffering from severe depression, much of it brought on by a feeling that his whole...
Death of a Soldier
A Mother's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
On 12 May 2009 Lieutenant Mark Evison of 1st Battalion Welsh Guards died after being shot in the shoulder while leading a patrol in Helmand Province. Mark was hailed a hero and one of the best of his generation of young officers, now his grave is one of the many in identical ordered rows in a military...
Max Beaverbrook
Not Quite A Gentleman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
Financial magician, flamboyant politician, minister in both world wars, press baron, serial philanderer, Winston Churchill's boon companion in the dark days of 1940-41 and in his later years, Max Beaverbrook was without a doubt one of the most colourful characters of the first half of the twentieth...