Nadine Dorries’s book is a surprise bestseller

Nadine Dorries’s novel, Four Streets, may have been unilaterally panned by the critics, with the Telegraph’s Christopher Howse labelling it the ‘the worst novel I’ve read in 10 years’, but Nadine’s first official journey into fiction has been a runaway success. It spent the last 43 days in the top 100 Kindle books on Amazon, before shooting up to number one for a week, seeing off stiff competition from that other Tory scribe Lord Archer.

Four Streets is selling at a much reduced rate of 59 pence; so it’s going to take a while for publishers Head of Zeus to make up the £18,000 Nadine has declared as an advance to the Commons authorities. That’s at least 39,508 copies. With the total deal for two further books reportedly into six figures, Head of Zeus had better hope that the stinking reviews keep coming because they seem to be rather helpful.