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Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair's autobiography 'A Journey' has broken sales records, say booksellers. Blair's memoirs, based on his time as the prime minister, have became Waterstone's fastest-selling memoirs ever and shot to the top of Amazon's best-seller list. Although Waterstone's refused to disclose precise sales figures, a spokesman said the book had been a "stupendous" and "unprecedented" success. "We've never seen a book like this sell so quickly in one day. It's selling in the sort of numbers you don't see outside of mass market fiction with huge appeal - Dan Brown and JK Rowling are the competition here," the BBC quoted spokesman as saying. The memoirs include Mr Blair's accounts of the Iraq war, the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America and Princess Diana's death. He also wrote about concerns over the amount he was drinking and of the rift he had with his successor Gordon Brown.

Tony Blair's memoirs 'smash sales records'