The Number One Sunday Times Bestseller
Selected by Dua Lipa for Service95's Bookclub Recommendations

'Another beautiful and moving book, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow's housing estates . . . If [his] first novel announced Stuart as a novelist of great promise, this confirms him as a prodigious talent.' - The Observer

From the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain, a vivid portrayal of working-class life in 80s Glasgow, and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men.

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow's housing estates, where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.

They should be sworn enemies if they're to be seen as men at all, and yet as they begin to fall in love, they dream of escape, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him.

But the threat of discovery is constant. When Mungo's mother sends him on a fishing trip to a loch in western Scotland with two strange men, he must summon all his inner strength and courage to reach a place of safety, a place where he and James might still have a future.

Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo is a gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.

_{Young Mungo was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10/4/22}

The second powerful and heart-rending novel, set in 80s Glasgow, from Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize Award-winning author of Shuggie Bain.

About the Author
Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in fashion design. Shuggie Bain, his first novel, won the Booker Prize and both 'Debut of the Year' and 'Book of the Year' at the British Book Awards. It was also shortlisted for the US National Book Award for Fiction, among many other awards. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker and his essay on gender, anxiety and class was published by Lit Hub. He divides his time between New York and Glasgow. Young Mungo is his second novel.

Reviews
A touching story of forbidden love pursued in the face of sectarian violence with a plot that unfolds with all the urgency and dread of teenage yearning * The Times/The Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year' *
Stuart follows his Booker-winning Shuggie Bain with another tale of a Glasgow boy whose mother is an alcoholic. This time, however, it's a love story, with Protestant-Catholic sectarian tensions in the background; Mungo and pigeon-fancier James are star-crossed lovers in a Jets and Sharks world. The tension of their romance is expertly sustained. * The Daily Telegraph, 'Books of the Year' *
Again Douglas Stuart proves himself a wonderfully gifted writer . . . Young Mungo is the work of a true novelist. * The Guardian *
A dazzling modern masterpiece . . . a book of clear, honest, often dazzling intent and integrity * Evening Standard *
The profundity of Stuart's exceptional writing comes, then, partly from his commitment to the truth that even amid deprivation, compassion persists. This is most fully and beautifully expressed in the relationship between Mungo and his fellow lonely adolescent Catholic James . . . It is no exaggeration to say that I read the final pages through floods of breathless tears. * Independent *
There are sentences here that gleam and shimmer, demanding to be read and reread for their beauty and their truth . . . I sobbed my way through Shuggie Bain and sobbed again as Young Mungo made its way towards an ending whose inevitability only serves to heighten its tragedy. * The Observer *
Stuart [is] a virtuoso describer with a more or less infinite supply of tender detail and elegant phrasing . . . Mungo's predicament is piercing, and as the story draws to a close, a spectral beauty prevails. * The Guardian *
Captures a world of suffering and sectarian violence with writing of transcendent beauty * Financial Times *
A rich and affecting group portrait of loneliness. Every character . . . is horribly alone . . . Stuart's book feels richly abundant. It spills over with colourful characters and even more colourful insults. And like a Dickens novel it has a moral vision that's expansive and serious while being savagely funny. * The Sunday Times *
Young Mungo seals it: Douglas Stuart is a genius . . . [He] writes like an angel. * The Washington Post *
If you adored Shuggie Bain . . . Young Mungo will please you on every page. If you didn't, what's wrong with you? * Los Angeles Times *
Stuart writes beautifully, with marvelous attunement to the poetry in the unlovely and the mundane . . . The novel conveys an enveloping sense of place, in part through the wit and musicality of its dialogue. * The New York Times *


Awards
Short-listed for ABIA International Book of the Year 2023 (Australia).



Book Information
ISBN 9781529068788
Author Douglas Stuart
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Picador
Publisher Pan Macmillan
Weight(grams) 274g
Dimensions(mm) 197mm * 130mm * 27mm