Prince Harry’s paperback edition of Spare came out this week. I haven’t been to a bookstore recently, but I absolutely believe that many bookstores will probably display the paperback edition prominently towards the front of the store. That’s mostly because the hardback was such a huge success, but Spare is still incredibly relevant today, 21 months after it was first published. The British media especially has not stopped whining about Spare in all of this time, and they keep trying to force this narrative that Harry “regrets” writing the book because he destroyed his relationships with his father and brother. The same father and brother who treated him like sh-t for years before he even published the book.
It’s also funny that Harry hasn’t given his critics anything new to whine about. He didn’t add any new chapters to Spare, nor did he edit out anything from the hardback edition. GB News hilariously tried to retread old news by suggesting that Harry “snubbed” King Charles and Prince William anew because he didn’t add their names to his dedication. Spare’s dedication still reads, “For Meg and Archie and Lili…and of course, my mother.” They’re so desperate to turn this paperback into a scandal, they’re positioning Spare against Mike Tindall’s new dumb book:
Mike Tindall is set to go head to head with Prince Harry tomorrow, with the former rugby player’s new book to be released on the same day as the Duke of Sussex’s paperback version of Spare hits shelves. Mike, who resides in Gloucestershire, is set to release ‘The Good, The Bad & The Rugby – Unleashed’ on Thursday.
The book – which he co-authored with Alex Payne and James Haskell – will give an insight into ‘the highs and lows their podcast, friendship and rugby.’ Mike – who is married to the Duke of Sussex’s cousin, Zara Tindall – revealed in the book he was teased by James, who once referenced Prince Andrew’s ‘car-crash’ Newsnight interview.
However, Harry is also putting out his paperback version of Spare on Thursday. The hardback version was originally released in the UK on January 10, 2023. The royal wrote that the book was ‘for Meg and Archie and Lili… And of course, my mother’. The Duke threw around many accusations about the Royal Family in Spare, along with alleging that he had a physical fight with his brother and heir to the throne, Prince William. He claimed in the book that the Prince of Wales grabbed him by the collar and threw him to the floor, while shattering a dog bowl with his back. William then allegedly declared: ‘I didn’t attack you, Harold.’
Harry also called his mother-in-law, Queen Camilla, ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ in his memoir and alleged she had ‘sacrificed him’ to improve her reputation.
In Mike’s new book, he described joining the Royal Family in 2011 after marrying Zara and is thought to have made a dig at Meghan Markle. He said: ‘Believe it or not, marrying into the Royal Family was pretty easy for me. They were always nice to me, and I was always nice to them. Simple really.’
I covered Mike Tindall’s interview with the Telegraph last week – he sounded like a meathead who couldn’t wrap his head around why Meghan was treated much differently than a white rugby douche who married an untitled royal-adjacent. Anyway, it’s really been a publishing blitz over there in recent months. Tom Parker Bowles, James Middleton and now Mike Tindall, all with books out around the same time as the Spare paperback release. Not to defend them, but I doubt James, Tom and Peter really planned it out, to have their books out at the same time. Has anyone heard anything about book sales numbers? I figured that if James or Tom’s book sold well or made it onto whatever piddling British bestseller list, the Mail would have a blaring headline about it. But it’s been really quiet, right? Almost like no one really gave a sh-t. I imagine it will be the same with Tindall’s book.
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- Peter Phillips, the Duchess of Sussex, the Duke of Sussex, Zara Tindall and Mike Tindall leave the National Service of Thanksgiving at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, on day two of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations for Queen Elizabeth II. The National Service marks The Queen’s 70 years of service to the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth. Public service is at the heart of the event and over 400 recipients of Honours in the New Year or Birthday Honours lists have been invited in recognition of their contribution to public life. Drawn from all four nations of the United Kingdom, they include NHS and key workers, teaching staff, public servants, and representatives from the Armed Forces, charities, social enterprises and voluntary groups.,Image: 696653435, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: -, Model Release: no, Credit line: Kirsty O’Connor / Avalon
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- A genral view of Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ on sale at W H Smith’s midnight book launch – Victoria Station, London, England, UK on Tuesday 10 January, 2023.,Image: 748600001, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- A general view of Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ on sale at Waterstones bookshop at Piccadilly, London, England, UK on Tuesday 10 January, 2023. The retailer opened its doors early at 8am for customers to purchase the book.,Image: 748668016, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- A general view of Prince Harry’s memoir ‘Spare’ on sale at Waterstones bookshop at Piccadilly, London, England, UK on Tuesday 10 January, 2023. The retailer opened its doors early at 8am for customers to purchase the book.,Image: 748668073, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: Please credit photographer and agency when publishing as Justin Ng/UPPA/Avalon., Model Release: no, Credit line: Justin Ng / Avalon
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- Mike Tindall attends the recording of a special episode of The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast, in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, on September 06, 2023 in Windsor, England. The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast included TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales, and The Princess Royal, in their respective roles as Patrons of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), the Rugby Football Union (RFU), and the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), to mark the start of the Rugby World Cup. The podcast is co-hosted by Mike Tindall, James Haskell (to the left of Mike in the images) and Alex Payne. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 804353186, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Mike Tindall, Princess Anne, Princess Royal, Prince William, Prince of Wales and Catherine, Princess of Wales attend the recording of a special episode of The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast, in the Green Drawing Room at Windsor Castle, on September 06, 2023 in Windsor, England. The Good, The Bad and The Rugby podcast included TRH The Prince and Princess of Wales, and The Princess Royal, in their respective roles as Patrons of the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU), the Rugby Football Union (RFU), and the Scottish Rugby Union (SRU), to mark the start of the Rugby World Cup. The podcast is co-hosted by Mike Tindall, James Haskell (to the left of Mike in the images) and Alex Payne. NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS,Image: 804353253, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: NO UK USE FOR 48 HOURS- Fee Payable Upon reproduction – For queries contact Avalon sales@Avalon.red London +44 20 7421 6000 Los Angeles +1 310 822 0419 Berlin +49 30 76 212 251 Madrid +34 91 533 42 89, *** NO UK USE FOR 48 HRS ***, Model Release: no, Credit line: Avalon.red / Avalon
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- Mike Tindall and Zara Tindall at the Six Nations: Full Contact World Premiere at Frameless in Marble Arch, London, United Kingdom on 15 January 2024.,Image: 851083303, License: Rights-managed, Restrictions: , Model Release: no, Credit line: Cat Morley / Avalon
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- The Sovereign’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, London Featuring: Mike Tindall meets guests Where: London, United Kingdom When: 21 May 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- The Sovereign’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, London Featuring: Mike Tindall meets guests Where: London, United Kingdom When: 21 May 2024 Credit: PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
Only in Mikes and the gutter press fever pitched dreams will his book outsell Harry’s.
Only if there’s a world wide shortage in toilet paper.
In the publisher’s dreams.
Only if he can convince him cousin-in-law William to buy up all the copies!
Hahha what a joke. Either william bought all the copies or beckham 😂
I doubt even the derangers would buy Mike’s book. Trying to make Mike a saint is laughable
Bellend writing a book? I’d buy it just to see if there are actual words in there.
don’t buy, you’ll let him earn money and improve his sales statistics.
@Andy I think you might need to buy some crayons.
NO… he will be lucky if he can sell 5000 copies on day 1
“Harry “snubbed” King Charles and Prince William anew because he didn’t add their names to his dedication.”
That is the craziest thing to say 😭😭 Why would he dedicate the book to his abusers? He wrote about how both Charles and Will threw him and his family under the bus to protect themselves. Then, was he supposed to thank them for the abuse?
I mean GB news is just trying to get clicks, but they have been on this whole thing about Harry really wants to come back and regrets everything. That’s why he’s doing all this charity work, to show them that he still wants to be a working royal, not because he cares about the organizations that he supporting. That’s also why they tried to make him not adding any new chapters, another one of their endless olive branches instead of, you know him just having said everything he wanted to say in the hardcover version. I think these people are consistently looking back and trying to redo the past, and relitigate what happened because they’re so afraid of the future which looks pretty damn bleak for them if we’re honest.
😂🤣😂🤣 no it won’t
I wonder if he wrote in his book about the time he was caught on camera cheating on his wife right after his wedding?
Right? Or when he was being inappropriate with staffers on that stupid reality show he was on. He’s such a cement head
@FancyPants – Many of these rugby players cheat on their wives and girlfriends. James Haskell, Tindall’s co-author, is the latest one. 😠
These three losers have nothing of note in their own right, so they bank on royal adjancy by marriage to sell their books. Haven’t heard the numbers for TPB but Middleton made over 2000 copies sold according to Amazon in the first week.
How much of the scorn and mockery poured at Harry from his family members especially the hanger on’s come from a place of jealousy? Because who else in the family would be reportedly paid 20 million for a book?
Spare was a smash worldwide. Mike’s little rehash of his rugby glory days won’t be. Though the paperback won’t sell as much as the original hardcover release, it will sell well.
The way the bar is lowered for these people. They are comparing the FIRST release of mikes book to the paperback edition of a record breaking book??! And if it sells more than the re-release they will of course hail this as some great triumph for Tindall and the royal family. Also these people lie. Harry was talking about how Camilla was perceived as “the villain” in his interview with Anderson Cooper. He doesn’t call her a villain in the book.
Mike Tindall’s book selling as well as Harry’s Bwahahahaha!!!! I will think of your headline Kaiser and laugh out loud all day long!!! Bwahahahaha!!
LOL. Like the universe is interested in what Mike ‘belland’ has to say. Someone’s paying for his nefarious activities being scrubbed from the internet because his ‘dwarf’ throwing attendance has been greatly reduced in articles. Hmmmm.
Didn’t Mike brag about beating Harry up when he younger and then called him names in the press ? They really treated Harry poorly and are both shocked and jealous at how well his life has turned out.
“I was nice to them and they were nice to me. ” Oh Mike, you were boot licking and they were laughing at you behind your back. That’s what they do; make fun of the “lesser” classes. You are just too dumb to notice.
The fact that were no articles about the other royal adjacent’s books after they were published means that they didn’t do well. I hope Harry writes a sequel one day.
I am writing a memoir about some significant health issues I experienced. I am a fairly strong writer, but unpublished. I have communicated with two different literary agencies, both REALLY want the book, it is SUPERB, but it needs A LITTLE editing, which is $1600. I think that is a fair price. My point is that they agreed to take on the book before they read a single sentence I wrote. Anyone can write a book, if they’re willing to put some money up front.
Sorry for the off topic, but PLEASE be careful. I’m trad published, and no legit literary agency will ever ask you for a cent. This is either a vanity publisher or scam.
Literary agents don’t get involved in the editing process at all – and no agent ever asks you for money, ever. They take a percentage of your earnings.
Trad publishers pay all the editing and other costs themselves.
Anyone asking you to pay thousands in spurious “editing costs” is absolutely a scammer. (Unless they’re openly marketing themselves as a vanity press and are upfront that they are simply providing a paid for service to print your books for you. But even then, be careful.)
Unfortunately this is an incredibly common scam in the writing world.
The ONLY way an author ever pays for editing is if they decide to hire their own developmental editor to help them get the book in good enough shape to send out to literary agents and publishers. Or self-published authors often choose to hire editors, too.
Please, please don’t consider paying these “literary agents”, everything about this screams scam.
@SamuelWhiskers – You are correct in what you say. A friend of mine has written a book on a “niche” subject and she didn’t have to pay her publisher anything. They just took all of their costs out of her sales. Same with Amazon, they just take a percentage from sales.
I will echo what another poster has said. Please do not pay the ‘literary agents’. It’s a scam.
I self-publish my books but I used to work in a mainstream publishing company. If you chose to self-publish, you can find excellent editors for much less than 1600, though I don’t know your word count.
I ditto the others. It sounds like you’ve stumbled on a vanity press, which is, essentially, a scam. No legitimate publisher will charge you to publish your work.
Royal hanger-on Mike T.
Without his wife and her family to mooch off, he is a nobody.
Found this on X. Even Kate’s book didn’t sell https://x.com/DuchessJRM/status/1849388622874546494?t=YF39I6VMNE8rUdnfD0zbsQ&s=19 If the future queen can’t move product what makes the spouse of the 21st in line to the throne think his pamphlet is going to do? Even BoJo’s book tanked.
OMG. I’ve never seen the cover of that book and I can’t believe that’s the picture he went with! Of all the pictures he chose the one where she looks like a confused dog? Yeah, they hate her over there.
Boris Johnson’s book sold 40,000 and is considered a failure, the publisher will start pulping soon.
James’s book tanked, TPB’s cook book seems to below the radar.
Joyful joyful days.
Have you seen the photos online of bookshops surrounding Johnson’s book with lots of books with titles like Surrounded by Liars: how the Tories destroyed the country? Good stuff.
“…alleging that he had a physical fight with his brother”
No. Bullshit. It was not a “fight”, it was a unilateral attack by William, and Harry responded much more calmly and maturely than most of us probably would’ve done in that situation.
Mike is surprisingly very intelligent. He attended Grammar school (for those outside UK it is state school for kids that achieve high grades) and was then awarded a place at Durham University (one of the top unis in UK) which he deferred to start his rugby career.
Ya sorry, I just don’t buy that buffoon having many brains. Maybe’s he’s suffered too many hits to the head playing rugby? The last thing that ape who threatened to throw Harry off the balcony portrays is intelligence.
Intelligence and common sense do not go hand in hand. One of my brothers was test smart,book smart but lacked judgement and self awareness and common sense.
The school he went to is a public school? I expect he did have to pass a test but I wouldn’t read too much into that, I also went to a grammar school outside the
South East around the same time and while the smartest kids in the area mostly did go there there was a lot of variation within the cohort. The least bright people at my school (I might include myself) were not smarter than the most bright non-grammar kids in the area.
Tindall’s Dad is a banker and he paid school fees, I think that says more about him than having gone to a grammar school. He’s strikes me as depressingly typical for a British sportsman (and also increasingly actor) in that he’s unlikely to be the most gifted the country has to offer but because access to facilties and opportunity is determined by how much money your folks have to send you to a good school he’s what we present to the world as our ‘best’.
…Durham University I will give you but it doesn’t look like he ever took up his place. Also, if you have sent your kid to public school I feel like Durham is maybe the least you should expect but you know, fine, it *is* indicative of strong academics.
Unfortunately though he just sounds like he grew up in a bubble and that he’s very much still in that bubble.
Kate went to good schools as well and she’s not very bright. Money talks a lot more than people are willing to accept. Plus being good at rugby is likely a big factor in getting into a university. It’s not like Oxford or Cambridge was calling him.
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Dear Mike, that sentence makes it worse. It really shows that they decided you a white male were fine. God.
Hmmmm. All I see is Shrek. He looks like an ogre, dresses in ill-fitting clothes, behaves badly, and possesses no emotional intelligence. Perfect fit for the rest of that phony family. Shrek and Fiona Forever!
No one outside of people who follow royal stuff even know who the hell these three people are. The delusion is real.
Spare as paperback will outsell them all.
Yeah I feel like the market for his book is very very small. This isn’t going to sell well. Comparing it to spare will just emphasize that.
This fool needs to shut up already. I hope his book tanks, but those three buffoons have a supposedly very successful podcast, so idk it might have a chance. Will never, ever achieve anything close to the initial release of Spare tho.
I was just about to say. This book has 3 authors so just like for a music collab the numbers should reflect 3 possible fanbases especially since they have to split the money 3 ways too.
Rota, please do keep drawing attention to the anecdotes Harry included in “Spare” that make William and Camilla and Charles look absolutely terrible.
Prince Harry’s book has broken sales records world wide, it is already a huge success and will continue to be the leader in its genre for years maybe even decades.. The likes of Mike Tindall, Boris Johnson, James Middleton, Tom Parker Bowels and the rota published propaganda books will have to fight it out for the worst sales numbers. None of these books are worth reading and the sales numbers will reflect that. Articles like these are just embarrassing, the author should be ashamed.
Showing my lack of non-American sports knowledge, I have a few questions. Was Tindall a good player enough to warrant a book? Or is he using his current podcast platform to sell the book? Over the years, he has exhibited extremely problematic behavior, so unless a book would guarantee a significant financial return, why would any publisher expose themselves for someone like him? Is he really worth it? Thanks, bishes:)
The paperback version of Spare will sell well, but it was such a cultural milestone, many people bought it already in hardback, digital or audiobook formats. Because the paperback doesn’t contain new content, most people who already bought it won’t run out and buy a new copy. I think the rota were desperate for new material and thought the paperback would spill details surrounding QE’s death and Charles’s con-a-nation. This current narrative is to make it seem like the paperback bombed when it doesn’t sell as fast as the hardback.
Which is probably why the book took over a year to come as a paperback. It’s likely that Random House hasn’t printed a lot of paperback copies because most people bought the hardback copy when it came out.
Challenge accepted. Will be ordering copies for weird family members and to leave behind in vacay rentals.
I bought the hardback, but am buying a copy of the paperback to add to our Little Free Library.
That way anyone in my neighbourhood can read about what little trolls Fred, Gladys, and WanK are.
Good gracious, is this really the best Zara could do? I find it hard to believe she didn’t have better prospects.
Honestly, some people just can clean up nice. Zara, I think, is one of them. She looks nice, knows how to act in public. That doesn’t mean she is any different from her husband. Otherwise, I am sure, she would find a better man to marry into Anne’s family, who is one of the most respected royals there.
Sorry, I have to disagree on your assessment of Anne. A respected woman would not hooking up with man who had a girlfriend, a respected person would not having affair while still married.
(We might have different criteria for defining a respectable person.)
Yes, Anne is a hustlers & willing to work; however her personal works benefits her family, and her Royal works, though has good numbers on the paper, benefit whom? And I have no idea what Zara does besides being “sponsored” by some brands? Zara really lives a charming, easy life.
@Square2, I agree, that is why I said “one of the most respected royals”. People with limited knowledge about royals respect her because she isn’t messy like Andrew or Charles.
Isn’t she pretty close to Willnot? Zara is probably just as loutish as her husband is!
A brutish thug is Mike, always behaving badly and speaking loudly as if anyone cares what he says.
BaHaHaHaHa – seriously. 😹
Does he even know how to read or write?
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Bookstore remainder bins will be overflowing.
Tindell’s book will never outsell Spare for the simple fact that people outside of U.K have no idea who he is. Even places where there is a passion for rugby and it’s is well known Australia,New Zealand, Fuji, there will be little or no sales. Rugby fans are not known to support the people they see as rivals.
I could barely read the article I was laughing so much at the headline! 🤣🤣
Surely even he doesn’t think he’s that popular!
The thing I find the most interesting is this flurry of books being published after Harry’s was a HUGE bestseller. I know some of the royals have published for years, this new generation of royal adjacent authors is noteworthy. I guess they decided that the only reason Harry’s book sold (& Meghan’s children’s book) is because of their connection to the royal family. Guess they’re learning differently now, though.
I think I sprained something laughing 🤣
Me too! Bahahahaha!
I think that the podcast is popular among rugby fans, or otherwise why would a book be feasible? But it would likely have a niche market? Will it be translated into numerous languages like Spare? I think they would need that to compete. And is competing with Spare only in the minds of the BM? Just as a matter of interest, how popular was Mike as a rugby player? I think the other two guys have their own fan base.
I’m puzzled why William would call his brother Harold when his brother’s full name is Henry.
@Annemaria Keane – It’s most likely an insult and a way for William to exert his dominance over his younger brother.
Wow, look at all these guys writing books and cashing in on their royal adjacency.
“Harry also called his mother-in-law, Queen Camilla, ‘dangerous’ and a ‘villain’ in his memoir and alleged she had ‘sacrificed him’ to improve her reputation.”
Does anyone at the Daily Fail proofread the trash that they put out? Camilla is Harry’s stepmother, not mother in law. Good grief.
Do Mike Tindall’s fans read books?
No. They don’t “reed or rite gud”. Sorry, not sorry.
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First, very few Americans have ever heard of Mike Tindell, and even if they did, why would they buy a book about a sport which is very seldom played in the U.S.??
Prince Harry’s book was about someone almost everyone here (U.S.) has heard about, so it has a much broader audience.
FYI, I just did a search on the U.S. version of Amazon, under books, “Mike Tindall” and it gave me a book by the my pillow guy “Mike Lindell”!!!! Next items listed were several versions of a candy called “Mike and Ikes” and finally a bunch of t-shirts with sayings about the name “Mike.”
Obviously, there aren’t going to be many sales on Amazon!
Sports books sell well for Christmas regardless .
Why is the British bestseller list piddling?