The working-class 1980s Glasgow of Douglas Stuart’s Booker Prize-winning debut “Shuggie Bain” is again the setting of his follow-up “Young Mungo,” and with it come the violence, religious tribalism, ...

Bullying, bigotry and benefits. That is how author Douglas Stuart describes his challenging childhood. But he then went on to have a successful career as a fashion designer before winning one of the ...

Growing up in 1980s Glasgow amid a working class beaten down by Thatcherism, Shuggie Bain watches as his family becomes increasingly broke and broken; his mother Agnes’ alcoholism drags her into a pit ...

For the poor, undereducated, underemployed characters of Douglas Stuart’s novels, late-20th-century Glasgow is a bleak world that is getting bleaker all the time. Each of his two novels thus far ...

Douglas Stuart discusses writing about a mother who is generous, loving, tenacious, funny, exhausting, and proud first; an alcoholic second. At its heart “Shuggie Bain” is about the love between a ...

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New books by Liza Minelli, David Sedaris, Maggie O’Farrell and Yann Martel are among the literary highlights of the year ahead ...

Bookseller One Grand Books has asked celebrities to name the ten titles they’d take to a desert island, and they’ve shared the results with Vulture. Below is fashion designer turned novelist Douglas ...

As a journalist who reviews books, I’ve already read some of next year’s biggest titles – including four tomes I devoured in ...

Douglas Stuart was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize for his debut novel “Shuggie Bain” on Thursday. “Shuggie Bain,” published in February, follows the life of Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a kind, lonely boy ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Yen Pham YOUNG MUNGO By Douglas Stuart When 15-year-old Mungo and his brother Hamish speed ...