https://yellowfiction.com/tags/douglas-stuart/ Recent content in douglas stuart on Yellow Fiction Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://yellowfiction.com/john-of-john-douglas-stuart-leaves-glasgow-behind-but-not-his-themes/ Sun, 03 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://yellowfiction.com/john-of-john-douglas-stuart-leaves-glasgow-behind-but-not-his-themes/ Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for Shuggie Bain, which was a novel about poverty, addiction, and the particular cruelty of the Scottish working class toward those it identifies as different. Young Mungo covered similar territory with similar emotional intensity. Both books were exceptional. Both were also so concentrated on their setting and social milieu that readers who loved them had to wonder what Stuart would do when he moved the frame.