SYDNEY - Convicted drug smuggler Schapelle Corby says she hopes the success of her new book will help get her home.
More than 17,000 copies of the book, My Story, were bought in its first eight days on sale, making it this week's top seller, according to NielsenBookScan, Australian newspapers were reporting this weekend.
Corby said it was "really great" so many people wanted to read the account of her trial and imprisonment in an Indonesian jail.
"It's great to know so many people are still interested in my plight," she said.
"Hopefully they can see the case against me is full of holes and that I did not get a fair trial.
"I hope my book will open people's minds to the truth and help me come home."
Corby, 29, released a statement via her brother-in-law from Bali's Kerobokan Prison, where she is serving a 20-year sentence for smuggling 4.1kg of cannabis inside a bodyboard bag in October 2004.
"It is really great that so many people are reading my book," she said.
"I have been betrayed by so many people and for two years so much rubbish has been written about me. This is the truth. This is my voice. I put my heart and soul into it.
"I often cried writing it. It was hard to do but I wanted people to know the truth, know the hell, know the lies and betrayals."
The book was co-written by former television producer Kathryn Bonella and is based on a series of secret interviews Bonella conducted with Corby inside the prison.
Corby is likely to use the proceeds from the book to fund her legal battle against her conviction.
