Blair memoirs hit the top spot on Amazon list

According to booksellers, Tony Blair's memoirs, A Journey, based on his time as the prime minister have broken sales records. The book became publisher Waterstone's fastest-selling autobiography ever and took top spot in Amazon's best-seller list.

The book, on its opening day of publication sold more copies than David Beckham and Russell Brand's autobiographies.

Currently it stands as the 12 th best-selling book in the US and the 9 th in Canada, but readers in France and Germany seem to have give a 'thumbs down' to it with the book taking the 366th and 529th rank respectively.

Although Waterstone did not give the exact sales figures, according to a spokesman the book had been a 'stupendous' and 'unprecedented' success.

He added that Waterstone had never seen a book sell like this so quickly in a day. He added that it was selling in the kind of numbers that one does not see outside of mass market fiction with huge appeal – Dan Brown and JK Rowling being the competition here.

It added that it sold as many copies of A Journey, on Wednesday as it did of former business secretary Lord Mandelson's memoirs, The Third Man in three weeks.
Official sales figures would be available only next Tuesday.