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Storysmith presents evening with Booker Prize winning-author Douglas Stuart
Storysmith has announced its latest in a series of literary events will bring the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author Douglas Stuart to Bristol.
Stuart, who wrote Shuggie Bain, is visiting the Station on Silver Street to mark the paperback release of his second novel Young Mungo.
The book is a gay lover story about two working-class teenagers, Mungo and James, who pine for a different life, set in the masculine and brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates in the 1990s.
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The evening hosted by the North Street indie bookshop is a chance to hear from Stuart, who will be in conversation with Tom Crewe, author of The New Life and contributing editor to the London Review of Books.
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Young Mungo is the second novel from the Scottish-American author and fashion designer, who won the 2020 Booker Prize with his debut novel, Shuggie Bain – a story about a young gay boy and his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow.
Neither pieces are not autobiographical, but Stuart draws heavily on his own childhood, growing up in a poor family and relying on benefits.
Attendees will be invited to pre-order your paperback copy of Young Mungo (RRP £9.99) for a discounted price, to collect on the day.
The announcement comes alongside a busy few months of literary events coming up at Storysmith in spring, from Sophie Mackintosh (Cursed Bread) and Will Harris (Brother Poem) to Catherine Lacey (Biography Of X) and Noreen Masud (A Flat Place)
For tickets, visit: www.storysmithbooks.com/product/douglas-stuart-young-mungo-event/
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