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 ...

LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for “Shuggie Bain,” a novel about a boy’s turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow that was turned ...

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 ...

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 ...