Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch to Publish Debut Novel

'Belle and Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch will publish his debut novel, Nobody’s Empire, in September 2024 [...]. Part memoir and part fiction, the novel is set in Glasgow and California in the early 1990s and follows a character searching for “a new-world reinvention” after his hospitalization with chronic fatigue syndrome. [...]

“I drifted into writing Nobody’s Empire. It felt like the right time to tell this story in long-form, even though I have been singing about it for years. I imagined I was writing it for the [myalgic encephalomyelitis and chronic fatigue syndrome] community and as the book went on it became more important to me, gaining a life of its own. I needed it as much as it needed me and I leant heavily on it for solace.'

https://pitchfork.com/news/belle-and-sebastians-stuart-murdoch-to-publish-debut-novel/

 

Not on the novel as far as I know but I just came across the following podcast from last year where among other things according to this twitter post Stuart discusses the illness

I also saw a Tumblr post for the podcast with the ME/CFS hashtag used.

https://podcasts.apple.com/jp/podca...m-gladwell-bruce/id1311004083?i=1000561763859