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Biteback Publishing

Biteback Publishing

UK political publisher

This article is about the publisher. For the Malaysian animal rights campaign, see Bite Back.

Biteback Publishing is a British publisher based in Hull concentrating mainly on political titles. It was incorporated, as a private limited company with share capital, in 2009.[2] It was jointly owned by its managing director Iain Dale[3] and by Michael Ashcroft's Political Holdings Ltd,[4][2] until 2018 when Dale stepped down to focus on his television and radio work.[5] Biteback Publishing has published several books by Ashcroft including Call Me Dave, his controversial 2015 biography of David Cameron.[6]

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Other titles include Out in the Army: My Life as a Gay Soldier (2013) by James Wharton,[7] The Left's Jewish Problem (2016) by Dave Rich, and Post-Truth: How Bullshit Conquered the World (2017) by investigative journalist James Ball.[8]

As of 2014 around 20% of the company's sales are ebooks.[9]

References

  1. [1]
    "Sales & rights | Biteback Publishing". Retrieved 15 November 2017.
  2. [2]
    "Biteback Publishing Limited". Endole. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  3. [3]
    Wharton, James. "Biting Back". authoright. Archived from the original on 27 September 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  4. [4]
    Pickard, Jim (31 March 2015). "Lord Ashcroft retires from House of Lords". Financial Times. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  5. [5]
    "Iain Dale steps down at Biteback and Andy McNab takes on advisory role to guide Biteback into next stage of growth". Biteback Publishing. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
  6. [6]
    "Michael Ashcroft". Biteback Publishing. Retrieved 26 September 2015.
  7. [7]
    "Out In The Army My Life as a Gay Soldier by James Wharton". Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  8. [8]
    Onwuemezi, Natasha. "Investigation into post-truth to Biteback". The Bookseller. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
  9. [9]
    Dale, Iain (2 July 2014). "BITEBACK PUBLISHING IS FIVE YEARS OLD". Iain Dale's blog. Retrieved 27 November 2015.
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