Biteback Publishing imprint: 402 books
Red Dusk and the Morrow
Adventures and Investigations in Soviet Russia
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
Paul Dukes was sent into Russia in 1918, shortly after the Bolshevik Revolution, by 'C' (the mysterious head of the British secret service). His mission: to pull together the British spy networks operating against the new regime. With its spies and diplomats thrown out at the start of the Red Terror,...
Seat by Seat
A Political Anorak's Guide to Potential Gains and Losses in the 2017 General Election
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
A surprise general election is approaching, but how surprising is its result going to be? Opinion polls and predictions speak clearly but, given the pollsters' recent performances, how much can we still rely on them? Will people vote with their heads or their hearts - or both?
With Article...
by Chris Hemmings
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
For decades women have shone the spotlight on equality and asked why they're treated like second-class citizens. They've understandably demanded freedoms, rights and legal protections and, while they've slowly won some battles, it has been far too long and been far too arduous.
But why is that?...
Trotsky's Favourite Spy
The Life Of George Alexander Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Una Kroll was eleven when she first met her father. They stopped for lunch on the way from Brighton to London and he took her outside to play with the innkeeper’s Angora rabbit. In that pub garden this stranger uttered words that sent a chill through her heart, he would not be coming home. There...
The Alternative
Towards a New Progressive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The 2015 election result was a disaster for progressives in British politics, delivering a majority Conservative government at Westminster. And the outlook for the next election is not auspicious either, particularly amid the aftershocks of the momentous 2016 EU referendum result and with possible...
Why Vote Green 2015
The Essential Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
The recent groundswell of support for the Greens has made them something of a dark horse in British politics. Will the party build on Caroline Lucas's 2010 breakthrough and convince the electorate that they will govern for more than just the environment? Deputy leader Shahrar Ali recruits some of...
People Power
Remaking Parliament for the Populist Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
British parliamentary democracy is in a state of advanced decay. The symptoms are familiar: party machines with no goal beyond their own survival; donors and lobbyists whose interests trump the nation’s; a disillusioned electorate; and an over-mighty executive whose patronage has become the main...
The Bad Boys of Brexit
Tales of Mischief, Mayhem & Guerrilla Warfare in the EU Referendum Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016
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Arron Banks enjoyed a life of happy anonymity flogging car insurance in Bristol until he dipped his toes into the sharkinfested waters of politics and decided to plunge right in. Charging into battle for Brexit, he tore up the political rule book, sinking £8 million of his personal...
By Royal Appointment
Tales from the Privy Council - the Unknown Arm of Government
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
The Privy Council is a centuries-old institution - yet, for an entity with such extensive influence over Britain's history, we know relatively little about it. What exactly does it do? To whom is it accountable? Just how much power does it hold over us? Some say it has no power at all, although you...
by Robert Dale
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
To some, they are the graduates grasping the first rung on the ladder to power, to others, the unsung heroes of the British parliamentary system. But whether your notion of parliamentary researchers is more The Thick of It than The West Wing, more Yes Minister than House of Cards, there is no doubt...
Takeover
Explaining the Extraordinary Rise of the SNP
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Even before soaring to the apparently impossible challenge of an outright majority at Holyrood in 2011, the Scottish National Party had long dominated the political narrative in Scotland. With the independence referendum in 2014 and their near clean sweep in the general election the following year,...
Masters of Nothing
How the crash will happen again unless we understand human nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
Behaviour is important. Whether this be the behaviour of those who saw it coming, or of those who constantly berated them. The behaviour of those who rode the boom and switched at the tipping point to ride the bust, or the behaviour of those who held on to their principled as the system collapsed...
by Maurice Chittenden
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
On a hot, sunny day last August, the final newspaper still working from an office on London’s Fleet Street called ‘stop the press’ and closed its doors for the final time. Thirteen days later it was the turn of award-winning journalist Maurice Chittenden to make his excuses and leave. He was...
by Mark Seddon, Francis Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Post-war Labour England wasn’t a bad place to live, but after Labour’s 2015 election defeat, the prospect of a healthier, happier and fairer country seemed more remote than ever.
Who would have predicted that career backbencher and serial rebel Jeremy Corbyn would be the one to breathe...