The brilliant new novel from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie BainDouglas Stuart's first novel Shuggie Bain is one of the most successful literary debuts of the century so far. It was awarded the 2020 Booker Prize, the sixth debut novel and only the second by a Scottish writer to win in the prize's 50-year history. Shuggie Bain also won the British Book of the Year Award, the Sue Kaufman Prize, was a finalist for the U.S.'s National Book Award, and won or was nominated for dozens of other prizes. The book is now published or forthcoming in 40 territories and has already sold more than a million copies worldwide.Young Mungo is Stuart's extraordinary second novel. Five years in the writing, it is both a page-turner and literary tour de force, a vivid portrayal of working-class life and a deeply moving and highly suspenseful story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James. Born under different stars--Mungo a Protestant and James a Catholic--they should be swo
