Young Mungo

Douglas Stuart's Booker Prize-winning follow-up explores the dangerous first love between Mungo and James, two young men divided by religious identity in Glasgow's working-class housing estates. Set in a hyper-masculine and violently sectarian world where friendship between a Protestant and Catholic boy should be unthinkable, this page-turning novel traces how they find sanctuary together against all odds. Stuart crafts a vivid, suspenseful portrayal of working-class life and forbidden connection in contemporary Scotland.