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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

Boris Johnson’s memoir sells more than 40,000 copies in first week on sale

Copies of Boris Johnson’s memoir Unleashed displayed for sale.
Copies of Boris Johnson’s memoir Unleashed displayed for sale. Photograph: Neil Hall/EPA

Boris Johnson’s memoir, Unleashed, sold 42,528 copies in its opening week after being published on 10 October, making it the bestselling book of last week.

This means Johnson has outsold David Cameron’s 2019 memoir, For the Record, which sold 20,792 copies in the week it was published, though Tony Blair’s memoir, A Journey, sold 92,060 copies in its opening week. Liz Truss shifted just 2,228 copies of her memoir, Ten Years to Save the West, in its first week on sale earlier this year.

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