Nicola Sturgeon to host event in Glasgow for new memoir
The former First Minister will take part in Nicola Sturgeon: In Conversation at Glasgow's University Union's Debating Chamber on Thursday, August 14 at 7.30pm.
Her "deeply personal" memoir is set to be launched on the same day during the Edinburgh International Book Festival.
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She is also set to take part in The Front List: Nicola Sturgeon in Edinburgh on the same day at 1.30pm.
The Glasgow Times previously reported that Sturgeon has announced she will not seek re-election as an MSP next year bringing an end to a parliamentary career that started with her election to the newly reconvened Scottish Parliament in 1999 as a Glasgow MSP.
She became deputy first minister to Alex Salmond in 2007 when the SNP won its first Holyrood election and had been in government ever since until she announced her resignation as first minister in 2023.
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She served as first minister and SNP leader between 2014 and 2023, overseeing a hugely successful election period at Holyrood and Westminster for the SNP.
Sturgeon has been the SNP MSP for Glasgow Southside since 2011 and before that for Govan since 2007.
She was a list MSP for the Glasgow region between 1999 and 2007.
Tickets for Nicola Sturgeon: In Conversation are available at waterstones.com/events.
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