Sold at half price, the former PM’s apologia of his career has outstripped sales of recent novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Osman

Boris Johnson’s memoir, which is published next week, is already topping the Amazon UK Books Best Sellers list, outselling recently published novels by Sally Rooney and Richard Osman.

Unleashed covers the politician’s career, from mayor of London to foreign secretary to prime minister. “Johnson’s book gives his version of the big episodes. But it dodges the larger issues they raise”, wrote Martin Kettle in his review of Unleashed. “Perhaps this overhyped book is the only memoir of which Johnson is capable. He is not going to change.”