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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 · Nov 14, 2022

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) · Nov 14, 2022

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 · Nov 14, 2022

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.

ABC News · May 28, 2022

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.

Daily Record · Apr 16, 2022

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.

The Conversation · Apr 10, 2022

Review: 'Young Mungo,' by Douglas Stuart

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

Tribune News Service · Apr 6, 2022

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.

Pedestrian.tv · Apr 6, 2022

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 · Apr 3, 2022

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?

The Guardian - UK · Apr 2, 2022