I haven’t been able to put down this gorgeous books mag from Backstory | London bookshop all evening. Among other things, it has taught me a lot about BookTok. Congratulations Tom Rowley

Massive shoutout to our ace art director Dario Verrengia, so talented and so zen (except when he texted about an early draft of cover art: ‘is this A BIT pigeon?’ 😂)

Our Backstory mag is in the wild! Here it is in Waterstones Waterstones Gower Street (thanks to Delme for the pic and encouragement)

Happy David Nicholls day to all who celebrate. (We Backstory | London bookshop very much do.)

A riveting evening Backstory | London bookshop listening to Jeremy Bowen talk about #TheMakingoftheModernMiddleEast , mostly, unsurprisingly, about the unremittingly grim war between Israel and Gaza. #proudandluckypublisher

I’m one of them and it’s well worth it and in the true spirit of the publishing industry they even threw in a tote bag

Wow! 274 people have subscribed to our gorgeous new books mag @BackstoryLDN since Sunday. Join them for £13 a year — and use code IWASHEREFIRST for 10% off backstory.london/products/subsc…

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…

V chuffed to have piece in Backstory, new magazine published by @backstoryLDN Wrote about Penguin’s fight against book bans in US. Available: Barnes & Noble, Waterstones & indie bookshops. Thanks Tom Rowley for commission plus excellent editing Illustration: María Corte Maidagan

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…

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.

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…

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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…

So proud that Backstory is in contention for indie bookshop of the year in such fine company! A big shout-out to Denise, Rory, Amy, Megan and Darby who make Backstory the warm book-loving community it is

Harriet’s features are the best. Can’t wait to see what she does.

Attn: early career British journalists. Want the opportunity of a lifetime? Want to work at the The Washington Post? And follow in the footsteps of Madhumita Murgia Louisa Loveluck Tom Rowley Sebastian Payne? We are now accepting applications for Stern-Bryan Fellowship city.ac.uk/prospective-st…

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