Douglas Stuart - John of John

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 National Book  Award, and in 2025 was selected by The Times  as one of the ‘best novels of the twenty-first century’  as well as one of the ten best Booker winners of all time by the  Daily Telegraph. His second novel, Young Mungo, was a number  one Sunday Times bestseller. His short stories have appeared in The New Yorker, and ‘Love, Hope & Grit’, the Imagine documentary Douglas made with the late Alan Yentob, is available on the  BBC iPlayer. Set on the Island of Harris, John of John is an intensely powerful  and humane character study in love, religion and the devastation wrought by living a secret life.