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Stuart Murdoch: ‘I feel like this book will be the Trainspotting of ME’

The Belle and Sebastian musician on his new novel, inspired by his long struggle with chronic fatigue, choirs and his love of Victorian authors

By 1995, he had regained sufficient energy to start the indie pop band Belle and Sebastian, which is still going strong today, 12 albums later. skip past newsletter promotion Analysis and opinion on the week's news and culture brought to you by the best Observer writers I am interested in what happens [after the events of Nobody’s Empire], because then the songs come along and Belle and Sebastian gets going and it’s quite a good origin story.

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