Alan Rickman's career-spanning diaries to be published as a book

When Alan Rickman died in 2016, he apparently left behind a vast archive of handwritten diaries, specifically 27 volumes compromising 25 years of his life, and now The Guardian says that publisher Canongate has acquired the rights to his diaries and will be compiling them into a book. Titled The Diaries Of Alan Rickman, which is an appropriate title, the book will be edited by Alan Taylor of the Scottish Review of Books and will apparently include everything from Rickman’s “thoughts on acting to insights on friendships and politics,” along with potentially reviews of plays he saw and behind-the-scenes Harry Potter stories. We know his journals included that stuff, but we don’t know what will make it into the book. There were 27 volumes, after all.