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A24 to adapt Shuggie Bain author's second novel into TV series

An Oscar-winning production company is set to adapt Young Mungo.

The National (Scotland)

Gordon Brown and Douglas Stuart join book festival line-up

The Borders Book Festival takes place over four days in June.

The Independent UK

Stormzy and Tracey Emin join Hay festival 2023 lineup

The UK’s best-known literary festival has a new CEO and promises ‘11 days of different’ as it unveils its full lineup featuring Richard Osman, Dua Lipa, Margaret Atwood and more

The Guardian - UK

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Abdulrazak Gurnah, Yuval Noah Harari, Salman Rushdie, Rutger Bregman, Elif Shafak, Robin Sharma: Times Litfest 2023 had the biggest names ever at any Litfest!

After a two-year hiatus due to Corona, the Times Literature Festival re-emerged in its physical avatar with a bang this year. On February 11 and 12, 2023, the Times Literature Festival (TLF) was held at the Siri Fort Auditorium in New Delhi, and it witnessed the coming together of some…

The Times of India

Meet the 10 best new novelists for 2023

Our annual pick of the best debut authors has previously included Sally Rooney and Douglas Stuart. Here we talk to this year’s hottest prospects

The Guardian - UK

The best books of 2022 for your summer reading list

From a book that "everyone should read" and another that'll "take your breath away" plus oodles of historical fiction — these are our favourite reads of 2022.

ABC News

Ncuti Gatwa and Douglas Stuart among Scots named on The List's Hot 100

NEW Doctor Who star Ncuti Gatwa and Young Mungo author Douglas Stuart were among the names listed on The List’s Hot 100 Scottish cultural…

The National (Scotland)

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The week in TV: Brian Cox: How the Other Half Live; I’m a Celebrity…; 1899; Hong Kong’s Fight for Freedom and more

The Succession star rages against inequality; all aboard Netflix’s Victorian steamship horror; Hongkongers turn to violence; and The Handmaid’s Tale is back on track

The Guardian - UK

We’ve never needed working-class stories like Shuggie Bain more

Douglas Stuart is adapting his Booker Prize-winning novel, set in a Glasgow scarred by Thatcherism, for the BBC. Thank heavens for that – the diet of wealth-obssessed TV like ‘The White Lotus’ and ‘The Crown’ is out of step with life in our cash-squeezed age, writes Jessie Thompson

The Independent UK

Booker-winner Douglas Stuart to adapt his debut novel 'Shuggie Bain' into a TV series

Author Douglas Stuart won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2020 for his debut novel 'Shuggie Bain'. And now, news is that he is all set to adapt his award-winning novel for a television series.

The Times of India

Douglas Stuart: Love, Hope and Grit review – the amazing real life story of Shuggie Bain is ruined by Alan Yentob

The Booker-winning author takes a squirming Yentob on a tour of Glasgow, and he couldn’t be more out of his comfort zone. Just wait till they go to a sweet shop!

The Guardian - UK

BBC announces Shuggie Bain series as Glasgow best selling book to hit TV screens

The Douglas Stuart novel tells the heartbreaking tale of a mother-son relationship in working-class Glasgow back in the 1980s, the the youngster struggling to make it in a tough world.

Glasgow Live

Booker Prize winning Scottish novel Shuggie Bain to become television series

Shuggie Bain, Stuart’s debut novel, is set in 1980s Glasgow and is about a young boy growing up amid addiction and poverty.

The National (Scotland)

Booker Prize winning novel Shuggie Bain to become television series

Author Douglas Stuart said he is thrilled that his novel will be turned into a television series by the BBC.

The Independent UK

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Daily Record

BBC announces Shuggie Bain TV series with screenplay by Douglas Stuart

Douglas Stuart, author of the 2020 Booker Prize-winning novel, is adapting his smash-hit novel set in Glasgow for BBC One and iPlayer.

The Guardian - UK

TV tonight: Douglas Stuart faces the trauma that inspired Shuggie Bain

The author takes a trip back to Glasgow in Imagine. Plus: who really stole the World Cup trophy in 1966? Here’s what to watch this evening

The National (Scotland)

'When I feel lost I come back home': Douglas Stuart on Scots, class and Shuggie Bain

"ONE of the things I was pretty adamant about is not lessening the Scots or the Glaswegian dialect in the literature,” bestselling Scottish…

The Independent UK

Ian Rankin and JK Rowling books have opening lines translated into Scots

The Braw Beginnings project has seen the start of a number of popular titles changed into the language.

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ABC News

George Haddad and Omar Sakr centre bisexual Arab Australian protagonists in their debut novels

They grew up without queer role models but now these two debut novelists turn to fiction – and to bisexual protagonists – to address complex personal and political histories.

Daily Record

Nicola Sturgeon and Scots singer Lulu pose for selfie at Glasgow event

The First Minister and the Scots singer posed for a selfie at Douglas Stuart's book launch.

The Conversation

Love, violence and 'class wounds' in Thatcher-era Glasgow: what Booker winner Douglas Stuart did next

In the suspenseful opening to Douglas Stuart’s second novel, Young Mungo, it is not clear if 15-year-old Mungo is being abducted or freely going with the two men who collect him from his mother.

Tribune News Service

Review: 'Young Mungo,' by Douglas Stuart

FICTION: Two teenage boys fall in love in a violent Glasgow neighborhood during the 1980s.

Pedestrian.tv

Litty Committee: Whip Out Yr Cable Knits Fuzzy Socks To Snuggle With These Autumn Reads

Time to dust off the 'ol reading glasses for these bad boys.

The Guardian - UK

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart review – another weepy from a writer on a roll

The Booker winner’s follow-up to Shuggie Bain – a similarly stirring tale of precarious lives on a Glasgow council estate – proves his debut was no fluke

The Guardian - UK

Douglas Stuart on Shuggie Bain and his tough start: ‘Living with an alcoholic, there wasn’t much I didn’t see’

After his autobiographical debut, about a gay boy growing up in 80s Glasgow, comes another tale that draws on his childhood. Could his glittering fashion career ever have kept the Booker-winner from his roots?

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