Publishing Fire and Fury pipped to No 1 in UK book charts by Lose Weight for Good Booksellers hail strong sales for Donald Trump exposé, but Tom Kerridge’s diet book sets the most British tills ringing ‘This is clearly a story that is not going to go away’ … copies of Fire and Fury in a New York bookshop. Photograph: Shannon Stapleton/ReutersAlmost 60,000 print copies of Michael Wolff’s Donald Trump exposé Fire and Fury were sold in the UK last week, but the British public’s New Year’s resolutions meant the explosive political title was pipped to the No 1 spot – by Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good. UK publisher Little, Brown told the Bookseller it had also sold “tens of thousands” of Fire and Fury ebooks and audiobooks, with 330,000 copies shipped. 'It's all explosive': Michael Wolff on Donald Trump Read moreBritish booksellers hailed the performance of the book, which was published on 5 January. Waterstones, the country’s largest book chain, said that Fire and Fury was its bestselling title “by a margin of thousands of copies”.

Source: The Guardian January 16, 2018 16:30 UTC