McIntyre slips from top of books chart

Michael McIntyre’s book has been knocked off the top of the bestseller list – by a puppet meerkat.

His Life And Laughing memoirs has slipped to No 2 in the Sunday Times bestsellers list, after several weeks at the top – displaced by A Simples Life, the spoof biography of Compare The Market advertising mascot Alexsandr Orlov.

But the comic shouldn’t lose too much sleep: his title still sold 27,200 copies in the last seven days – more than Keith Richards, Alan Sugar, Stephen Fry and Cheryl Cole.

To date, McIntyre’s book has sold more than169,000 copies. It has an RRP of £20, although most major retailers are selling it at half price, but that still means that at the most conservative effort, it has taken £1.7million in hardback.

Published: 5 Dec 2010