Tony Blair’s memoirs, A Journey, have kept the number one spot after flying to the top of best-seller lists, according to booksellers.
Mr Blair’s memoirs, which focus on his time as Britain’s prime minister, became Waterstone’s fastest ever selling autobiography, the bookseller said. Published on Wednesday A Journey remained at the top of the best-seller list on Amazon’s UK site and in the top-ten on the US site.
Although Waterstone, Britain’s biggest bookseller, has yet to release detailed sales figures, a spokesman said, “We’ve never seen a book like this sell so quickly in one day”.
The book has also been racking up column inches with much discussion on Mr Blair’s reflections on the Iraq war and his rift with Gordon Brown among other topics. The Telegraph accused Mr Blair of rewriting history and the Mail of cashing in on indiscretions.
But whatever critics say, there’s no doubt the book has secured his success on the high street. Waterstone A Journey sold as many copies on its first day as the memoirs of former business secretary Lord Mandleson, The Third Man, did in it’s first three weeks.
