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My Bookshop Backstory by Tom Rowley

Tom Rowley

On quitting a secure, well-paid job I love to start my own bookshop

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Jacqueline Wilson at Backstory

10th August, 2.15pm

The beloved children’s author will join us to sign copies of her latest book, Esme Pepper. Spots must be reserved in advance (no need to book a ticket for parents/guardians or sibling...

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Overheard at Backstory #9

IT’S SUMMER! Thanks to the bookshop’s excellent AC we’ve been keeping pretty cool. We’ve also been keeping our ears to the ground, as ever, for the perplexing, the profound and the profane, collected here by Isobel Lawrence for your reading...

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Signed, sealed, and delivered

Many publishers offer bookshops the chance to order signed copies of new titles, writes Denise, hoping that this added extra tempts a potential reader into making a purchase.

Unsurprisingly, at Backstory, we like to go one better. We have...

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Nicola Sturgeon at Backstory

When the bookshop existed only in my head and I was still figuring out what to call it, the name ‘Backstory’ appealed to me for a few different reasons. One of them was the idea that it would be a meeting place where we could delve deeper i...

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    I quit my job to found Backstory, London’s independent bookshop of the year. Visit Backstory.London to browse our books: we ship worldwide and next day in the UK (free over £25).

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