Douglas Stuart Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Douglas Stuart

Overjoyed that Shuggie Bain is a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Prize for First Fiction @latimesbooks 💫But REALLY over the moon to see Andrew O'Hagan snatch the 2020 Christopher Isherwood Prize - oh we love to see it. Congrats to all the nominees and winners. https://t.co/vtZsCoT489

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Douglas Stuart

“Old God’s Time,” by Sebastian Barry, is truly superb.

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Douglas Stuart

Absolutely thrilled for @BernardineEvari on her well deserved Booker win. Girl, Woman, Other is a gorgeous book. Congrats also to @groveatlantic and my talented editor @peterblackstock. So happy for you all! 💙 https://t.co/QRJ1LvP5QC

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“The Leopard,” by Tomasi di Lampedusa, a tale of Sicilian society in decline. I asked a friend what her favorite book was and she recommended this. I knew once I’d read it that I had excellent taste in friends.

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I once hunkered down in my poky Florentine hotel and missed much of the city because I was so engrossed by… “As Meat Loves Salt.” It’s a gutsy historical romance set during the English Civil War, about two conscripts who fall in and then violently out of love.

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The craic is always great with @elainefeeney16. So I'm looking forward to chatting tomorrow and discussing her amazing novel, AS YOU WERE. Go on, pour a glass and come join us. 👇 https://t.co/Iws5D9vr9X

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And not enough people have read James Kelman’s Booker winner, “How Late It Was, How Late,” which is a masterpiece of dialect but also one of the most audacious novels ever written.

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I am fascinated by the irredeemable hero at the center of Alexander Trocchi’s “Young Adam.” It is a claustrophobic study in how men and women can use each other, a frank look at sex as a means of survival.

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…I lived in London while my husband lived in Chicago. We were impoverished students who couldn’t afford long-distance calls, so we read the same books to feel closer to each other, and our first pick was Genet’s “Our Lady of the Flowers.” It was sexy and full of yearning.

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I wish everyone would read “The Trick Is to Keep Breathing,” by Janice Galloway. Galloway writes with an unflinching intimacy in this tale of a woman mourning the death of her married lover.

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