Douglas Stuart: ‘Homosexuality and faith have been a struggle all my life’
The Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo speaks to Dazed about being orphaned at 16, queer life in the Outer Hebrides, and his heart-rending new novel John of John
Black News 
Douglas Stuart has just finished soundcheck when he calls me from a dressing room at Union Chapel in London. It’s the evening before his third novel, John of John, is published in the UK, and the 49-year-old author is in the midst of a mammoth tour. “I haven’t had a day off in three weeks,” he says. “It’s been full on.”
Author tours are now par for the course, but Stuart’s is a blockbuster affair, with 16 dates in total across thehellip;
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