Synopsis
From Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo comes a stunning new novel, John of John.
Set in the Isle of Harris, John of John is a tender and devastating story of love and religion, of a father and son, art and landscape, and the corrosive effects of living a secret life. It confirms Douglas Stuart as one of Britain’s greatest contemporary novelists.
Details
21 May 2026
9781035086955Imprint: Picador
Reviews
There are sentences here that gleam and shimmer, demanding to be read and reread for their beauty and their truth
If Shuggie was a paean to the struggles of a single mother lost on the high seas of poverty, addiction and mental illness, Young Mungo is Stuart’s flag in the sand for the hidden generations of working-class gay men
A wonderfully gifted writer
Shuggie Bain means so much to me
