Backstory magazine
"Jaunty" - TLS
"I love this magazine!" - David Nicholls
Welcome to a new magazine for book lovers. Published by an independent bookshop,
Backstory is lively, informative – and just a little bit cheeky. Books and the places we encounter them deserve that treatment: spark and playfulness, not snobbery or hushed reverence.
I hope readers share just an ounce of the joy we have in making the thing, commissioning some of our favourite writers from Alice Winn and Stephen Bush to Ed Caesar, Hollie McNish, Julia Armfield and Sophie Mackintosh.
There’s crunch, there’s light relief and there’s a ton of book recommendations.
Tom
