Turns out that there’s no such thing as bad publicity. Despite leaking faster than Labour’s doomed manifesto in 2019, Prince Harry’s book has done rather well. As of last night, more than 400,000 copies of Spare had been sold making it the fastest selling non-fiction book according to the publisher. Cue lots of gags that it should be in fiction or crime and one bookstore impishly dressed their window placing Spare next to the (brilliant) novel How To Kill Your Family.
Of course, the critics are split down predictable lines. All the people ranting that it’s the worst, most irrelevant piece of toilet paper in the history of time are the same people dedicating acres of newsprint or hours of puce faced, eye-bulging booming on air.
