Lives Under Pressure

With his Booker Prize-winning debut novel 'Shuggie Bain', Douglas Stuart announced himself as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary fiction, with the acclaimed bestseller 'Young Mungo' cementing that reputation.

In his new novel, 'John of John', Stuart turns to the Hebridean Isle of Harris, tracing a young man's return home and the fault lines that open between faith, family and desire.Stuart is a master of working-class storytelling, writing with extraordinary tenderness and control about love, shame and survival.

Join Stuart and Ferdia Lennon, author of 'Glorious Exploits', to explore the pull of home and the cost of freedom.