2023 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction (longlist)
2023 British Book Award Fiction Audiobook of the Year
2023 British Book Award Fiction Book of the Year (nominee)
2023 Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award (longlist)
2023 Polari Prize for Best Book (nominee)
The number one Sunday Times bestseller, from the Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain.
'Beautiful and moving, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates' ''' TheObserver
A Selection of Dua Lipa's Service95 Bookclub.
Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a vivid portrayal of working-class life in 80s Glasgow, and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men.
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates, where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.
They should be sworn enemies and yet, as they begin to fall in love, they dream of escape, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him . . .
A gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.
Young Mungo was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10/4/22
Genre: Literary Fiction
'Beautiful and moving, a gay Romeo and Juliet set in the brutal world of Glasgow’s housing estates' ''' TheObserver
A Selection of Dua Lipa's Service95 Bookclub.
Douglas Stuart’s Young Mungo is a vivid portrayal of working-class life in 80s Glasgow, and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men.
Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates, where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.
They should be sworn enemies and yet, as they begin to fall in love, they dream of escape, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him . . .
A gripping and revealing story about the meaning of masculinity, the push and pull of family, the violence faced by so many queer people, and the dangers of loving someone too much.
Young Mungo was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 10/4/22
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"Few novels are as gutsy and gut-wrenching as Young Mungo in its depiction of a teenage boy who finds love amid family dysfunction, community conflict and the truly terrible predations of adults. Vividly realised and emotionally intense, this scorching novel is an urgent addition to the new canon of unsung stories." - Bernardine Evaristo
"Some novels can be admired, others enjoyed. But it is a rare thing to find a story so engrossing, bittersweet and beautiful that you do not so much read it, as experience it. It is this quality Young Mungo possesses - an intense, lovely, brutal thing. Stuart is a masterful storyteller." - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
"Some novels can be admired, others enjoyed. But it is a rare thing to find a story so engrossing, bittersweet and beautiful that you do not so much read it, as experience it. It is this quality Young Mungo possesses - an intense, lovely, brutal thing. Stuart is a masterful storyteller." - Kiran Millwood Hargrave
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