NICOLA Sturgeon has provided an update on her memoirs after revealing earlier this year that she had completed the first draft.
Publisher Pan Macmillan announced it snapped up the rights to Sturgeon’s memoir last August with the book due for publication in 2025.
It is yet to be given a title although promises to be a “deeply personal and revealing memoir from one of Britain’s most significant political leaders of recent times”.
In an interview with STV’s Scotland Tonight, the former first minister was asked if she was assessing her political legacy.
“Well I’m writing a book,” she said.
However, Sturgeon refused to be pressed on any further details telling interviewer Colin Mackay, “you’re going to have to buy the book” and joking, “I’ll even sign it for you when the time comes”.
She said: “I’m not first minister anymore, I’m not leader of my party. I’m still an active, serving politician.
"You never know what I might say and do in the future." As she works on her memoirs and reflects on her life in Scottish politics, we ask @NicolaSturgeon what she might have planned for the future. Watch the full interview on https://t.co/pGyJqApiP6 pic.twitter.com/22vjQTMrDZ
— ScotlandTonight (@ScotlandTonight) December 17, 2024
“You never know what I might say and do in future. I’m very much looking forward to and embarking on the next phase of my life.”
Asked if this would be explained in the book, Sturgeon said: “It might do. I’ve not finished it writing it yet. I’m editing it. I can still add a few bits in.”
The former SNP leader continued to tell Mackay he would need to read the book when asked if it would hone in on any issues facing the SNP, including the ongoing investigation into the party’s finances.
She said it was “not within my control” and that she was unable to comment any further.
We told on Monday how Sturgeon said she knows “nothing more” about the police investigation into SNP finances than she did when she was arrested and released without charge more than 18 months ago.
Sturgeon was also asked whether or not she would decide to stand as an MSP at the next Holyrood election.
Her successor Humza Yousaf has already announced that he will stand down as an MSP.
Asked about her plans, Sturgeon said: “My papers are in so that is the working assumption but I’ll take a final decision in due course.”
