Issue 3 of Backstory magazine, packed full of articles about authors, books and bookshops. With 64 pages of original features by authors and booksellers, Backstory is a colourful and zippy antidote to weighty literary journals.

Issue 3 includes:

• Exclusive articles by Ella Risbridger, Ferdia Lennon, Claire Fuller, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan, Sophie Elmhirst and Kate Young

• An exclusive interview with Richard Coles

• The science of the perfect romcom

• How to raise a reader

• Popeye, Beano and other purrfect bookshop cats

• And lots more