Thursday, September 03, 2009


Jordan's book left on the bed at Travelodge
Katie Price's biography, Jordan: Pushed to the Limit, has been pushed firmly off the bestseller lists.
By Jonathan Russell, City Diary Editor, The Telegraph, 01 Sep 2009

It is currently 6,238th, according to Amazon – but that hasn't stopped it topping other lists.
Hotel operator Travelodge tells me the book is top of the list of books to be abandoned in its hotels this year.
Barack Obama's Dreams of My Father is second, with comedian Dawn French coming in third with her memoirs Dear Fatty.
An interesting sandwich for the President of the United States to find himself in.

There's some cracking detail in the report though.
Apparently hotels in Wakefield, Leicester and Birmingham had the most copies of Pushed to the Limit left behind; hotels in Manchester and Oldham had the most copies of the Kama Sutra abandoned in them, while business books were most likely to be abandoned in London, Edinburgh and Cardiff.
Among the 7,000 books abandoned there was even a suitcase full of Mills & Boons left in a Nottingham Travelodge by a "high-flying businessman", the company says.
Intriguing, and if you were wondering where you left them, Mr Highflier, you now know where to pick them up.

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