Tom Rowley

Journo-turned-bookseller. Run @BackstoryLDN, edit Backstory magazine. [email protected] 🏳️‍🌈

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Why I'm starting a bookshop - the first of my (free) weekly emails. Sign up if you like! https://t.co/fBjNlDFddN

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Three literary editors talking at a party, me making up the gaggle.

Me: “I can’t wait for the new Patrick Radden Keefe”

Lit Ed 1: “Oh yes. Brilliant.”

Lit Eds 2 and 3, shocked *and jealous*: “So you’ve read it?”

Lit Ed 1: “Oh no. But brilliant.”

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

If you listen to audiobooks, do you get them…

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Do any of you order gifts for family/friends online with nice presentation eg gift wrapping/nice notes or cards etc? If so, which brands/e-commerce sites do this well?

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Order a signed and personally inscribed copy of @JohnJCrace latest book, delivered anywhere in the UK https://t.co/ks4X2lu0rE

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Great mag meets great bookshop. Get your copy now!

[The Fence Magazine @The_Fence_Mag]

At long last, the greatest book of this young century is here.

The Fence is proud to present The Pub - a guide to, and almanac of, all things pub and pubbing.

14 August. £16.99. Pre-order with our official bookshop partner, @BackstoryLdn.

https://t.co/cwJU5bEqUm

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Buried in the details is this big deal for small businesses. ‘De minimis’ currently allows businesses (including ours!) to sell relatively inexpensive products direct to US consumers with no duty (and saves a whole bunch of faff on both sides)

[Ryan Petersen @typesfast]

Duty free "de minimis" shipping is being eliminated from ALL countries as soon as the systems are ready.  🧵

[susannacrossman @crossmansusanna]

Friends, readers, please join us at brilliant @BackstoryLdn Balham 30/10 7.30pm, for talk about my memoir #HomeIsWhereWeStart @FigTreePenguin, my 70/80's commune upbringing, rebelling against rebels, memoir writing, home & more. Come & say 'hi'. Book here
https://t.co/qeczyEZTkt

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

I am. Are you?
(This’ll be great.)

[Jim Waterson @jimwaterson]

Some news: I've quit my job at the Guardian to launch London Centric, a modern news outlet for the capital doing journalism in the old-fashioned way.

I saw the response on here to the Evening Standard's print closure and it felt like time to step up: https://t.co/yL5Ad84XYH

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Come and work in my lovely bookshop!

[Backstory | London bookshop @BackstoryLdn]

We’re hiring a bookseller to work every Friday and Saturday at our lovely bookshop in south London. Come and join our friendly team! More info here - https://t.co/gtgHGc1pKz

[Backstory | London bookshop @BackstoryLdn]

We’re hiring a bookseller to work every Friday and Saturday at our lovely bookshop in south London. Come and join our friendly team! More info here - https://t.co/gtgHGc1pKz

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Thanks to the publisher who sent me tea and chocolates from Fortnums. I couldn’t find a note. Whoever it is, I shall only buy books from you from now on.

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

I spy @BackstoryLDN in Barnes & Noble

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

On my proofs pile: the new Sally Rooney, the new Elizabeth Strout, @SimonParkin latest… which to read first? Desperate to tear into all three. Solution: start with the new @The_Fence_Mag, which arrived today, too.

[Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations @five_books]

NEW

@BackstoryLdn bookseller and former Economist journalist @tomjrowley offers book recommendations on British politics that share expert insight into the backdrop to the UK general election

https://t.co/2686u7mQUr

[Archie Hall @ArchieHall]

Time is a flat circle, etc

https://t.co/cUhBTrEWXg

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

@robcrilly @BackstoryLdn @BNBuzz Do!

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Oklahoma! Our @BackstoryLdn books magazine went on sale in @BNbuzz across USA this week. Wild to see copies have already sold in branches from Tulsa (OK) to San Antonio (TX) & of course New York (NY). Very exciting!

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

@hwallop @BackstoryLdn Indeed we do!

[Harry Wallop @hwallop]

Fabulous debut novel. I bought it after @tomjrowley & @BackstoryLdn raved about it. And as they had recommended my favourite novel of 2023 – Alice Winn’s ‘In Memoriam’ – I thought I’d give it a go.
It turns out they have impeccable taste…

[Tom Rowley @tomjrowley]

Who’s next for the WaPo confirmation hearings?