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.

[6] 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] More recently, the company has published Jesse Norman's first novel, The Winding Stair (2023), which won the 2023 Parliamentary Book Award for Nonfiction or Fiction by a Parliamentarian,[9] Ten Years To Save The West by Liz Truss[10] and Andrew Pierce's bestselling[11] memoir Finding Margaret (2024), about his search for his birth mother.

[12] It has been announced Biteback will publish the authorised biography of entrepreneur Denis Lynn, written by Jago Pearson, in 2026.