Prince Harry’s memoir Spare is knocked off the Australian charts by a children’s book

Prince Harry’s memoir Spare has become one of the best-selling books of all time internationally, but it seems Australian readers aren’t all that interested in the royal tale because it’s just been knocked off the charts. of successes for a children’s book.

The explosive biography of the Duke of Sussex sold 64,148 copies in its first week, while Scott ‘The Barefoot Investor’ Pape’s Barefoot Kids sold nearly double that amount with 128,641 copies, Nielsen Bookscan figures show.

‘Who would have thought that good financial advice would outperform frozen children?’ an editorial source said the daily telegraphreferring to one of the most notorious tales in Harry’s book.

Pape himself called the book “the best [he’s] ever written’ and was ‘glad the Australian families got behind it’.

Spare was the best-selling book in Australia for the week ending January 14 and is the best-selling memoir in Australia since records began in 2002.

The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You’ll Ever Need by Pape was named the best-selling book of the decade in 2019.

Its 2018 follow-up The Barefoot Investor for Families sold 74,602 copies in its first week.

The explosive biography of the Duke of Sussex sold 64,148 copies in its first week, while Scott ‘The Barefoot Investor’ Pape’s Barefoot Kids (pictured) sold nearly double with 128,641 copies, according to figures from Nielsen Bookscan.

his third book, Barefoot Kids, was published by HarperCollins on November 7 and is still at #1 two months later. The book talks to children about money.

In the UK, Spare has become the best-selling non-fiction book since records began in 1998.

The Duke of Sussex’s autobiography has sold 750,000 copies in all formats (print, audio and e-book) in the UK since its publication on January 10.

Spare was the best-selling book in Australia for the week ending January 14 and is the best-selling memoir in Australia since records began in 2002.

This makes it the best-selling memoir in its first week of publication, according to publisher Transworld, the British division of Penguin Random House.

Official figures from Nielsen BookData showed that the book, which was written by notorious ghostwriter JR Moehringer, sold 467,183 copies in print in its first week alone.

It comes after a fierce publicity campaign, in which Harry participated in several television interviews to promote his book.

The memoirs include claims that the Prince of Wales physically attacked and taunted him for his panic attacks, and that King Charles put his own interests above Harry’s and was jealous of the Duchess of Sussex and Princess of Wales.

Prince Harry’s scathing memoirs have become the best-selling nonfiction book since records began in 1998. (Pictured: Harry on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert)

Despite the fact that the memoirs were leaked in Spain before the official publication date, Nielsen data suggests that sales were not negatively affected.

In an American broadcast promoting the play, Harry called the Duchess of Cornwall a “villain” and “dangerous”, accusing her of rehabilitating her image at the expense of his.

As the duke continued a series of high-profile promotional interviews, he said he would “like nothing more” for his sons to have relationships with the royal family.

His comments about his son and daughter came despite criticism he has leveled at his brother William, father Charles and stepmother Camilla.

He also described his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, as his “guardian angel” and said that she is with him “all the time”.

Despite the fact that the memoirs were leaked in Spain before the official publication date, Nielsen data suggests that sales were not negatively affected. (Pictured: The Duke and Duchess of Sussex)