BEIJING, July 11 -- Sean Connery, who has said he would not live in his native Scotland again until it became independent, is writing a book about his birthplace mixed with autobiographical anecdotes, his publishers said.

    Canongate Books of Edinburgh said it had acquired world English-language rights to the film star's memoirs, "Connery's Scotland," in conjunction with Polygon.

    "Our goal is to produce a very readable, visually stimulating and hopefully intriguing history of Scotland, with personal discoveries," Connery said in a statement.

    Best known for his screen portrayal of fictional British spy James Bond, 007, Connery will work in collaboration with writer and filmmaker Murray Grigor.

    Connery, the Edinburgh-born son of a truck driver, worked with Grigor on the award-winning documentary "Sean Connery's Edinburgh." The star now lives in the Bahamas.

    The Herald newspaper quoted Grigor as saying: "The content of the book is not quite all settled, and we have just been discussing exactly what will go into it."

    Canongate said the book would be published in September 2007 to coincide with the 300th anniversary of the political union of Scotland and England in 1707.