JK Rowling offers to review Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir for free

JK Rowling has offered to review Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir for free in British newspapers.

The Harry Potter author has repeatedly criticised the former first minister of Scotland for the SNP government’s controversial gender recognition reforms.

Most recently, Rowling hit out at “Sturgeon’s legacy” amid an ongoing employment tribunal against a NHS health board involving a female nurse whose complaint about sharing a changing room with a transgender doctor led to her being suspended.

“This is Nicola Sturgeon’s legacy: a government that publicly backs the hapless, unprofessional, ideologically captured health board that’s persecuting a nurse for asserting her legal right to a single-sex changing room,” Rowling posted on X on Saturday.

Rowling said she would review Sturgeon’s book, due to be released on August 14, in any paper for free so long as they “don’t edit out the swear words”.

She said she “ready to take one for the team” by reading the former first minister’s memoir titled Frankly.

Sturgeon was responding to coverage of promotional reviews of the book, in which one quote compares it to former US President Barack Obama’s memoir.

Sturgeon has previously said she has “poured her heart into” her book, which will cover “extraordinary events”, “colourful characters,” and “incredible experiences”.

The memoir will be published a few months after the ex-SNP leader’s name was cleared in a police investigation into the party’s finances.

In March, Sturgeon announced she would not be seeking re-election next year.

STV News has contacted Sturgeon for comment.