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Issue 2 of Backstory, the antidote to weighty literary journals for serious readers. With 68 pages of original features by the most exciting authors, Backstory is a colourful, zippy and occasionally provocative celebration of books and bookshops. It appeals to a broader and younger readership that better represents a typical book buyer.

In 1885, W. T. Stead published an account of a girl of thirteen being sold by her mother to a brothel where her virginity would be highly prized. The story of the GBP5 virgin was a sensation, one of the greatest scandals of the Victorian era. But soon the story began to unravel...