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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

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.

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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

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.

Daily Record

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

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'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 National (Scotland)

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.

The Independent UK

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

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

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

Review: 'Young Mungo,' by Douglas Stuart

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

Tribune News Service

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.

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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?

ABC News

The best new books to read in April as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics’ top picks for the month include novels about a dystopian tech future, feuding visitors to a remote Irish island, and teenage boys falling in love in conflict-riven 90s Glasgow.

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