Posting out copies to the first-ever subscribers of our new books mag, Backstory. It’s off to New Zealand, the US, Paris, Aberystwyth - and even north London. Join us! Use IWASHEREFIRST for 10% off backstory.london/products/subsc…

Great write-up of the launch of our @BackstoryLDN books magazine in @TheBookseller — excited for it to be in lots of fab bookshops… including our own!! thebookseller.com/news/indie-boo…

Independent bookshop Backstory | London bookshop is launching a new literary magazine of the same name targeted at a younger, female audience 👇 thebookseller.com/news/indie-boo…

Would you stay in a capsule hotel made of books? I gave it a try for the latest edition of
Backstory | London bookshop , a fantastic new magazine focused on everything reading related! Find it soon at your local independent book shop 🙂

Ah, the glamour of writing. We’ll have a big stack of these at @BackstoryLDN next week. Can’t wait — it’s a fab read.

An honour to contribute to issue 2 of Backstory | London bookshop magazine with a piece on literature's rejected sequels. Buy the damn thing at a sbookshop near YOU!
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I've contributed to issue 2 of a new lovely little books magazine published by Backstory | London bookshop. Pleasure to work with these people - pick up a copy in Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or an indie bookshop near you!

Exciting news: our biannual books magazine is going to be stocked in Barnes & Noble and Waterstones — as well as, of course, in our own lovely bookshop. Find out what it’s all about tomrowley.substack.com/p/heres-that-n…

Every week, our brilliant Balham indy bookstore, Backstory | London bookshop shares a newsletter. In this week's, Tom Rowley delves into the data – specifically, Backstory's share of UK sales for specific titles. Sign up at backstory.london and read about it. You'll be impressed!

We had such a great time at Backstory | London bookshop for the launch of GROW WHERE THEY FALL by Michael Donkor! 📚🍂

This glorious novel about a young man finding the courage to expand the limits of who he might become is available now from Fig Tree: backstory.london/products/grow-…

Launching Michael Donkor’s brilliant #GrowWhereTheyFall at Backstory | London bookshop tonight - where it’s Book of the Month, with a glorious window display! 🍃

Really looking forward to coming to down to London on Weds 17 April to talk North stuff at Backstory | London bookshop in Balham from 7.30pm.

A bookshop with a bar sounds alright to me - Londonards, come & say hello if you're free & willing.

Tix via the link below

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TICKETS ON SALE NOW: On April 24 at Backstory bookshop in Balham I'll be talking about my new book Cuckooland: Where the rich own the truth (a Sunday Times book of the week). Come along, ask anything you like, support independent bookshops. Backstory | London bookshop backstory.london/products/24-ap…

From London, the finalists are: Children's Bookshop, Burley Fisher Books, The Common Press Bookshop & Café, Round Table Books CIC, BookBar, Village Books, @backstoryldn, Brick Lane Bookshop, The Riverside Bookshop, and Goldsboro Books.

Not long until Alwyn Turner is at Backstory | London bookshop, talking all things #LittleEnglanders 🎟️

Want to know more about the Edwardian era? Ever wondered who the real Peaky Blinders were? Now's your chance to find out!

Grab your ticket: tinyurl.com/4bnw7eu4

Last call for applications. Deadline is this Wednesday. Come and be the new bookseller and marketing executive at our indie bookshop!

the reason for Backstory | London bookshop browsing is that Elisa Shua Dusapin's VLADIVOSTOK CIRCUS (tr. Aneesa Abbas Higgins) is their Feb Book of the Month. Thank you, Backstory!! (ooh, a book about flying through the air a leap-year-Feb BOTM? nice) backstory.london/products/vladi…

Fancy a new job working for a lovely indie bookshop? We’re hiring for a full-time bookseller and marketing exec, who will sell books, create fab visuals on Photoshop and lead across our social media. More info here backstory.london/pages/jobs

A note of praise for Backstory | London bookshop's nonfiction book club. A top idea. One book a month. Everyone in the club gets the book, then meets the author over Zoom, ask qs etc. I did an event last night for The Moth and the Mountain. Searching questions. Convivial atmosphere. Huge fun.

BOOKSHOP JOB! At @BackstoryLDN we’re looking for a bookselling and marketing executive skilled at Photoshop and with experience managing social accounts to join our small and friendly team. More info here backstory.london/pages/jobs