Biteback Publishing imprint: 402 books
by Chris Riley
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
When Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United in 2013 he called time on the most successful career in football history. During his twenty-seven years at the helm of the world's most famous club, he has shown himself to be a paragon of leadership, an incomparable man-manager...
There's Only One Stevie Bacon
My Life Watching West Ham Through a Camera Lens
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
He has never scored a goal, lifted a trophy, worn the captain's armband or even played for the club, but Steve Bacon is considered a genuine Hammers legend. As West Ham United's official photographer for more than thirty years, Steve has become a cult hero at Upton Park - he has appeared on Sky's...
by John Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
This book is not your usual whitewash. Irreverent, hilarious and surprising, Wayne Rooney: Boots of Gold is a tarts-and-all biography of England's most famous sportsman and an exposé of the iniquities of some of those who have sought their pound of flesh from his celebrity. Short-tempered and sweary...
Journeyman
One Man's Odyssey Through the Lower Leagues of English Football
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2015
BEN SMITH: PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER. Recognise the name? Of course you don't. That's because most of Smith's years in the game were spent outside the vaunted, big-money environs of the Premier League - and this sporting memoir is all the more entertaining as a result. 1995: an adolescent Ben arrives...
Nearly Reach the Sky
A Farewell to Upton Park
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
Success, failure, heroism, stupidity, talent, skulduggery ... Upton Park has seen it all. If supporting his club for fifty years has taught Brian Williams one thing it's that football fans definitely need a sense of humour - how else would they cope with the trials and tribulations that are part and...
Weirwolf
My Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
David Weir was born without the use of his legs, and not only learned from an early age to cope with his disability, but defied his limitations to become a great wheelchair racer and national hero. Here he sheds light on his journey from frustrated schoolboy to Paralympic athlete and champion, and...
The 10 Football Matches That Changed the World
And The One That Didn't
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
The assertion that 'football isn't a matter of life or death, it's much more important than that' has been verified repeatedly throughout modern history. It has bolstered tyrants and helped depose them; contributed to conflict and created ceasefires. It has been an incubator of racism at home and...
Between the Crashes
Reflections and insights on UK politics and global economics in the aftermath of the financial crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
City of London MP Mark Field had a ringside seat in 2008 as the global financial system was sucked into a spiral of crisis. With one foot in the Westminster Village and the other in his central London constituency, Field had access to a unique mix of politicians, financiers and business people in...
by Iqbal Wahhab
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
In the wake of recent scandals concerning charities such as Kids Company and BeatBullying, as well as the wave of suspicion they have generated about the third sector as a whole, celebrated restaurateur Iqbal Wahhab offers a scathing critique of the cosiness between government and charity, and proposes...
by Robert Banks
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Somewhere in a parallel universe there is another Robert Banks, who is a season ticket holder at Manchester United and is a highly successful novel writer and adored by everyone in the world, regardless of footballing, religious or racial denomination. But is he happy? You bet the hell he is. But...
Why Women Need Quotas
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
Vicky Pryce's motorbike-riding mother wanted to study physics at university, but her family told her it was impossible for a woman. She was determined that her daughter would have the opportunities she hadn't - and the young Vicky went on to forge a glittering career as an economist, with high-profile...
Everybody's Business
The Unlikely Story of How Big Business Can Fix the World
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Sometimes it seems as if business exists purely to enrich a small elite. While the world is facing unprecedented challenges, it appears that businesses are only interested in making profits or paying bonuses. Big businesses are powerful machines. We all know they have the potential to cause enormous...
Lost Causes
The Retreat from Classical Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Society is cracking. Lurching from economic disaster to social decay, our modern-day life is plagued by sickness. Deepak Lal, world-renowned economist, tackles the hidden roots of our problems in his visionary book Lost Causes. Providing a completely new framework for socio-economic understanding,...
Trust
How We Lost it and How to Get it Back
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The updated edition of the bestselling title, Trust is the first serious response to the era of post-financial and political meltdown, Dr. Anthony Seldon lays out a blueprint for regaining trust within the national life. In part a wide-ranging meditation on notions of trust and responsibility in civic...