Write move by Jarvis SINGER’S HAPPY TO BOOK THE TREND

is begrudgingly about to become a writer, but his debut book will be reassuringly unusual.

The pop star's first novel This Book Is A Song is due in October, so long as he gets it finished in time.

Jarvis explained: “When lockdown happened I thought to myself, ‘Now this is when the book will get done, but it's not finished yet.”

But don't go expecting the typical rock 'n' roll autobiography as he added: “I think a memoir is something that people come to at the end of their life and they try to reframe all their experiences so that they have significance, or so that they fall into the meaning that they are trying to convey in the memoir.” Instead This Book Is A Song is all about creativity and an encyclopaedia of the random objects Jarvis has collected over decades.

He revealed: “I've kept a lot of things. Some Wrigley's Extra chewing gum – before it turned into the kind of pellets that you get now.

“Imperial Leather soap, the one with the sticker in the middle. I've kept it because I knew I would never see it again. “A Marmite jar with the old metal lid before it changed to plastic.

“It's a bit like that woman Marie Kondo – a kind of archaeological dig of my life.” Of course it makes Jarvis come across as a hoarder, something he fears could be closer to the truth.

He added: “The time when I realised that maybe I had a problem with this was when Rosa's Lime Juice Cordial changed its bottle and label.

“That wasn't something that I ever generally drank, it's kind of horrible. Jarvis is back in the charts this week with new album Beyond The Pale featuring his Jarv Is band.

And it looks to the future as well as embracing the past.

He added: “I'm always interested in making new discoveries, but I like to know that things are going to be where I've left them.”