Booker winner Douglas Stuart joins us for a discussion about his award-winning debut novel Shuggie Bain. Douglas Stuart was born and raised in Glasgow. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, he moved to New York, where he began a career in design. Shuggie Bain is his debut novel. It won the 2020 Booker Prize, and was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction, the Kirkus Prize and the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. His short stories have appeared in the New Yorker and his essay on ‘Gender, Anxiety and Class’ was published by Lit Hub. Shuggie Bain is to be published in over 30 territories (and counting) and a tv adaptation is being made by A24 and Scott Rudin Productions; Douglas is currently writing the screenplay. Loch Awe, the second novel by Douglas Stuart, will be published by Picador in 2022. Douglas will be interviewed by Simon Richardson.

Simon Richardson has been on the board of New Writing South for more than six years, but his day job is as a radio producer specialising in programmes about books. At the BBC he's made a range of programmes and series about LGBT writers including Edmund White, Kate Davies, Garth Greenwell, Juno Dawson, Stella Duffy and Neel Mukherjee. He's currently the Producer of Radio 4's Flagship arts programme Front Row where he takes a keen interest in exploring writing from queer perspectives.