A history book rejected by so many publishers that the author self-published is the top selling Christmas book in England, according to a Daily Mirror report by Vanessa Allen. “It went into shops last week and already thousands a day are being sold,” she says. Says author George Courtauld of his The Pocket Book of Patriotism, “So many publishers turned it down it was a leap of faith to do it myself.” The major U.K. chain Ottakar’s just ordered an additional 30,000 copies, says Allen, and a rep for the store tells her, “It’s this Christmas’s must-have book.”