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Why Canongate shelved Connery

07.07.08

The Scotsman claims to know why Canongate and Polygon shelved Sean Connery's autobiography: apparently Connery was writing a book about Scottish culture, rather than his life story.

Canongate's Jamie Byng tells the Scotsman that he walked away because of irreconcilable differences over the content of the book. Connery agreed to work with Canongate to unleash his long-awaited memoirs on an expectant public. But now Byng says that he, Connery and his co-author Murray Grigor, did not see "eye-to-eye" on the direction of the project and agreed to part. One publishing insider, who has seen an early draft of the book, said it focused on aspects of Scottish culture rather than on Connery's anecdotes.

The finished book will now be published by Weidenfeld. A spokesman for Weidenfeld said Connery "offers a correction to misconceptions that many believe are part of the historical record whilst revealing, as never before, his own vibrant personal history".




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By Dr Blockbuster

Dr Blockbuster schays, in my view, this work of Sir Sean Connery and Murray Grigor was ALWAYS going to be a book about Sean's view on Scotland and not another biography approach. How about mentioning that it will be given it's big launch at the Edinburgh International Book Festival on Sir Sean's 78th birthday! That'll be 25 August 2008 then ... in Charlotte Square Gardens, Edinburgh. Dr Blockbuster will see you there! :wink:

09 Jul 08 19:10

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