Biteback Publishing: 454 books
The Spy Net
The Greatest Intelligence Operations of the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2015
The 'White Lady' spy net stretched across Europe, encompassing more than 1,000 agents and producing 70 per cent of Allied intelligence on the German forces in the First World War. Through sheer ingenuity, it maintained a staggeringly complex network of spies deep behind enemy lines, who provided vital...
Standing for Something
Life in the Awkward Squad
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2011
Mark Seddon is best known in Britain as a leading member of the Awkward Squad, a thorn in the flesh of New Labour as editor of Tribune, house magazine of the Left, for over a decade. In that role and as a member of Labour's National Executive Committee, he scurried around the corridors of power, gaining...
The Honourable Ladies: Volume I
Profiles of Women MPs 1918–1996
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
FOREWORD BY PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY
When Constance Markievicz stood for election as MP for Dublin St Patrick’s in 1918, few people believed she could win the seat – yet she did. A breakthrough in the bitter struggle for female enfranchisement had come earlier that year, followed by a...
Who Killed Kitchener?
The Life and Death of Britain's most famous War Minister
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2019
In June 1916, Field Marshal Lord Kitchener set sail from Orkney on a secret mission to bolster the Russian war effort. Just a mile off land and in the teeth of a force 9 gale, HMS Hampshire suffered a huge explosion, sinking in little more than fifteen minutes. Crew and passengers numbered 749; only...
Taking It On the Chin
Memoirs of a Parliamentary Bruiser
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Surely one of the most colourful characters ever to have graced the Palace of Westminster, Tom Pendry has been a boxer, a bruiser and a scholar, whose political career as an agent, candidate, Labour MP and peer has spanned over sixty years.
As well as introducing key legislation, his time in Parliament...
Bloody Southerners
Clough and Taylor’s Brighton & Hove Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
In 1973, Brian Clough and Peter Taylor stunned the football world by taking charge of Brighton & Hove Albion, a sleepy backwater club that had rarely done anything in its 72-year existence to trouble the headline writers. The move made no sense. Clough was managerial gold dust, having led Derby...
by Jeremy Scott
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
The 'Roaring Twenties' they called it: a fun time to be alive. The birth of a brave new world. The jazz age of Fords, flappers, prohibition and bathtub gin. The movies, radio and consumerism have redefined the American dream; this is the dawn of our modern era. The machine is the future and supreme...
Standing Down 2017
Interviews with retiring MPs
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2017
The 2017 general election has introduced us to dozens of new MPs who have entered the House of Commons, but it is also the perfect opportunity to reflect on those who have decided to stand down. In this second edition of the popular series, bestselling biographer and political journalist Rosa Prince...
The Madness of Modern Parenting
(Provocations)
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2014
Parenting in the modern world is an overwhelming concept. It seems to divide everyone from psychologists and politicians to scientists and salesmen, leaving the parents themselves with a terrible headache as a result. How can anyone live up to such expansive and conflicting expectations? As Zoe Williams...
by Nick Szczepanik
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Brighton Up: The Inside Story of Brighton & Hove Albion's Journey From Despair to Triumph and the Premier League tells the story of how Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club bounced back from the heartbreak of missing out on promotion to the Premier League by the narrowest of margins, to achieve...
A Bazaar Life
The Autobiography of David Alliance
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
At the age of thirteen, David Alliance was taken out of school by his father and apprenticed into the Grand Bazaar in Tehran, where he learned the business skills that were to prove invaluable in one of the most successful business careers of modern times. In 1950, with just ?14 in his pocket, he...
Greta Garbo
A Divine Star
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
In the male-oriented studio system, Greta Garbo wielded a power no other actress has ever possessed, before or since. Be it producer, director, lover or journalist, Garbo called the shots, and when she decided that she was done with the whirlwind of life as Hollywood's darling she withdrew completely,...
Giants
The Dwarfs of Auschwitz
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
During the 1930s and 40s the Lilliput Troupe, a beloved and successful family of singers and actors, dazzled with their vaudeville programme and unique performances. The only all-dwarf show of the time, their small stature earned them fame - and, ironically, ultimately saved their lives. As Hitler's...
by Valerie Grove
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
Millions of readers know and love him for his lyrical portraits of his life, from the moving and nostalgic tales of childhood and innocence found in the pages of Cider with Rosie, to the nomadic wanderings through Spain retold in As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, to his dramatic experiences fighting...