Biteback Publishing imprint: 402 books
The King Who Had To Go
Edward VIII, Mrs Simpson and the Hidden Politics of the Abdication Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
The previously untold story of the hidden politics that went on behind the scenes during the handling of the Royal abdication crisis of 1936.
The King Who Had to Go describes the harsh realities of how the machinery of government responds when even the King steps out of line. It reveals the...
Home From Home
A West Ham Supporter’s Struggle to Reach the Next Level
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
West Ham United, the object of an irrational affection that has dominated the life of journalist and writer Brian Williams, has moved from its old home to what was the Olympic Stadium in Stratford. It is not a move he welcomed.
It's not just the football itself. The supporters have left behind...
by Micky Adams, Neil Moxley
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Micky Adams has a football CV as long as your arm, having put in 438 appearances as a full-back - for teams such as Gillingham, Leeds, Fulham and Southampton, followed by a management career that took in over a dozen clubs at every tier of English football.
As a manager, Adams took the helm...
Progressive Capitalism
How to achieve economic growth, liberty and social justice
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
The neo-liberalism that dominated economic thinking since the advent of Thatcher and Reagan is now seen to have serious flaws. Progressive Capitalism seeks to replace it with a new Progressive political economy, based on an analysis of why the growth rates of countries differ, and what firms have...
Prisonomics
Behind Bars in Britain's Failing Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In March 2013, Vicky Pryce was sentenced to eight months in prison for accepting her ex-husband's penalty points on her driving licence some ten years earlier. After a very public trial, she was sent first to the notorious Holloway and then to East Sutton Park, an open prison in Kent. Inside, she...
The Slow Downfall of Margaret Thatcher
The Diaries of Bernard Ingham
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Branded ‘the rough-spoken Yorkshire Rasputin’, Bernard Ingham served as Margaret Thatcher’s press secretary for virtually all of her eleven-year premiership, adroitly steering the government’s relationship with the media – and the Prime Minister’s relationship with the nation. Known for...
Not in Front of the Corgis
Secrets of Life Behind the Royal Curtains
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2011
The Windsors are England's most famous family, but what are they really like when they're out of the public gaze? Behind closed doors in every Royal residence, from Buckingham Palace to Clarence House, there are two families - one upstairs and one down - and nobody knows a Royal quite like a Royal...
Watermelons
How Environmentalists are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children's Future
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
If global warming isn't real then how come the ice caps are melting? Why would all the world's top scientists lie to us? What exactly is so wrong with biofuels, wind farms, carbon taxes, sustainability and preserving scarce resources for future generations? And what about Bangladesh, the drowning...
Behind The Blue Line
My fight against racism and discrimination in the Police
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
On Wednesday 15 April 1998, Detective Sergeant Gurpal Singh Virdi was arrested and accused of sending racist hate mail to himself and ethnic minority colleagues. Dismissed from the Metropolitan Police Service, his reputation in ruins, Virdi took his case to an employment tribunal which judged that...
by Geoff Steward
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
How one man's mid-career crisis turned into an odyssey into the weirder side of American life.
Like most of us, Geoff Steward was rocked by 2016's litany of horrors. Unlike most of us, Geoff did something about it.
Turning his back on his day job as a lawyer - and the requirement to...
Reporting on Hitler
Rothay Reynolds and the British Press in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Allegedly the only man capable of holding the Führer's intense gaze, Rothay Reynolds was a leading foreign correspondent between the wars and ran the Daily Mail's bureau in Berlin throughout the 1920s and 1930s. The enigmatic former clergyman was one of the first journalists to interview Adolf Hitler,...
Post-Truth
How Bullshit Conquered the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2017
2016 marked the birth of the post-truth era. Sophistry and spin have coloured politics since the dawn of time, but two shock events - the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's elevation to US President - heralded a departure into murkier territory.
From Trump denying video evidence of his own words,...
Seller Beware
How not to sell your business
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
Denise Barnes was seven years old when she first realised she had a gift for selling. After a stellar career building her own business from the ground up Denise finally decided the time was ripe to enjoy her success and made plans to hand on her prospering company. But instead of settling her comfortably...
The Secrets of Station X
How the Bletchley Park codebreakers helped win the war
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The astonishing story of how the British codebreakers of Bletchley Park cracked the Nazi Enigma cyphers, cutting an estimated two years off the Second World War, never ceases to amaze.
No one is better placed to tell that story than Michael Smith, whose number one bestseller Station X was one...