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Truss bestseller sold out on Amazon

17 April 2024

8:43 PM

17 April 2024

8:43 PM

She’s produced a bestseller! Liz Truss’s new book has been out for less than 72 hours and it’s already sold out on Amazon. It’s currently reprinting but will be due back in stock early next week. Golly. Ten Years to Save the West is part-memoir, part-political vision, documenting not only Truss’s 49 days in office but the twists and turns of her own political journey in and out of No. 10. At the time of writing, Mr S notes that Truss’s colourful new tell-all has taken first place in Amazon’s ‘biography and memoir’ bestseller chart — and it is the fifth most popular book being bought on the site overall. Liz-mania has taken hold…

But the success of the shortest-serving Prime Minister’s book may ruffle feathers as it pushes other publications down the charts. Indeed, Meghan of Montecito and her royal renegade husband might not be too thrilled that the kindle version of Lady Colin Campbell’s biography of the couple is ranked 15th while the hardcover copy has been knocked off the list altogether. And Prince Harry may be rather affronted to see that his own book Spare is even lower on the biography chart in, um, 91st place. His wife the Queen of Privacy may be having second thoughts about that fancy new PR guru she hired earlier this year…


And how does the former Prime Minister’s memoir compare to those released by her political counterparts? Once her former colleague and now her frequent critic, former Tory MP Rory Stewart may be rather displeased to learn that Truss’s tell-all has pushed his memoir, Politics on the Edge, down the list — it’s now ranked 90th. There’s double disappointment for her detractors as Truss actually appears twice in the chart, with the audiobook story of her rise to power, Out of the Blue, rising up almost 30 places within the last day to 56th. And, in the battle of the bestsellers by former leaders, Truss is currently on top — the audiobook of Barack Obama’s memoir ranks 99th while that of our very own Lord Cameron has been knocked off the list altogether.

Not bad going at all…

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