Douglas Stuart Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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And while I have you: TIDES by Sara Freeman is irresistible. A quiet tale of a woman adrift, who is fleeing her past and trying to lose herself in a small seaside town. I read it in an afternoon but I’ll be thinking about it for a long time. https://t.co/R5DVNhV3hb

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This is a book that has fallen out of our consciousness and I think it could help many people today. It is best known for its sharp humour as Crisp charts his emancipation from a dull suburban childhood and begins his journey to become his authentic queer self.

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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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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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🥹Some news..... A24 Re-Teams With ‘Shuggie Bain’ Scribe Douglas Stuart For ‘Young Mungo’ TV Series https://t.co/Yt5wuY2cxf via @Deadline

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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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