Nobody's Empire - Murdoch, Stuart
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It's the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen - music loving romantic - has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living.

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It's the early 1990s in Glasgow, and Stephen - music loving romantic - has emerged from a lengthy hospital stay diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, a little-understood disease that has robbed him of any prospects of work, a social life or independent living.
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Autorenporträt
Stuart Murdoch is a Scottish musician, composer writer, and filmmaker, and the lead singer and songwriter for the iconic Glasgow-based band Belle and Sebastian. Since forming in the mid-1990s, the band has released twelve acclaimed studio albums, including Tigermilk and If You're Feeling Sinister . Stuart’s online diaries were collected into his first book, The Celestial Café and in his work is featured in Belle and Sebastian: Illustrated Lyrics, featuring specially commissioned illustrations from Scottish artist Pamela Tait. Murdoch also scripted, composed, and directed the movie God Help the Girl, a musical coming-of-age drama. An outspoken advocate for sufferers of Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), Murdoch is also an Ambassador for the Open Medicine Foundation working to promote awareness of ME/CFS and the efforts to find a cure.
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"Stuart has done something really special here: Nobody's Empire is a smart and tender depiction of a gestating artist's soul, told with real wit and pathos. It's a portrait of the artist as a young convalescent." - Colin Meloy, singer-songwriter of The Decemberists and author of Wildwood

"Nobody's Empire is as memorable as it is moving [and] is a bright spotlight on a condition left to moulder too long in the dark. It's a public service in print." - The Times (UK)

"You don't have to be an indie-pop fan to appreciate this compassionate, sweet, beautifully written novel. Murdoch proves he's as good a novelist as he is a musician." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

"A tender slice of autofiction...Nobody's Empire is mesmerizing in a low-key way, much like the music of Belle and Sebastian, and it leaves a smile on your face."
- Booklist (starred review)

"Murdoch's first novel is empathetic, funny and heartwarming." - Buzz Magazine

"[Murdoch's] most personal work to date [. . .] it's often poignant but also darkly humorous." - Irish Times

"The frontman of Belle & Sebastian recreates his younger years here in wonderfully limpid prose that looks at music and art and life and gives an insight into his struggles with ME." - The Scottish Herald

"Stuart Murdoch can write. He's made the transition from gifted songwriter to splendid author. 'Nobody's Empire' is a marvelous coming of age, come of wisdom, coming to California novel." - Robert Forster, singer-songwriter of The Go-Betweens and author of Grant & I: Inside and Outside the Go-Betweens

"A young man copes with chronic fatigue syndrome in Belle and Sebastian front man Stuart Murdoch's autobiographical debut novel, written with charming self-deprecation and winning petulance...Nobody's Empire can speak to anyone drawn to slay-the-dragon chronicles."
- Shelf Awareness

"Stuart Murdoch's mostly true novel about his chronic illness dazzles with indie charm...By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Nobody's Empire is a romantic world of possibility and youthful yearning." - Minnesota Star Tribune

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