𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐫 𝐁𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐩 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐊
A former Benoni boy is shooting up the Amazon bestseller lists with his “hilarious” and “poignant” book about growing up in the town in the 1970s.
Gavin Weir’s memoir, Mr One Hundred Billion, was ranked fourth in the top 100 on the Amazon.co.uk list of biographies and memoirs of journalists, with readers in Britain, the US, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere rating it a five-star read and describing it as “unputdownable”, “brilliant” and “piercingly honest”.
“I think I underestimated just how big an appetite there is for any book that reminds us of who we were when we were young, when we were filled with hopes, dreams and ambitions.
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