Digital Biographer™

Sir Sean Connery launched his official biography today at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, a work co-written by our mutual friend, the urbane Murray Grigor.

I just got my first look at the book’s cover. Something seems very familiar about that pose, and the cropping of the photo… now where have I seen that approach before?

Do you think I should be asking Sean’s book designers or the photographer to confess their plagiarism, and show the world their web browser histories?

Happy Birthday Sean – we both know how to hide the fact we’ve got less hair than we did when we were younger. The name’s Petherick. David Petherick…

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