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After three years of constant leadership and staff turnover, the African American Cultural Center named Leah Angel Daniel as its new executive director.

In my humble opinion all of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s books should be essential reading in schools, universities and households throughout the world.

Douglas Stuart's book tells the story of a child's relationship with his alcoholic mother in 1980s Glasgow.

After his autobiographical debut, about a gay boy growing up in 80s Glasgow, comes another tale that draws on his childhood. Could his glittering fashion career ever have kept the Booker-winner from his roots?<br>

The Duchess of Cornwall put on a stylish display as she interviewed author Douglas Stuart about his life-changing year after winning the Booker Prize with debut novel Shuggie Bain.

During the ceremony for the 2021 Booker Prize, a pre-recorded interview between Stuart Douglas and the Duchess of Cornwall over tea at Clarence House will be played.

The 2020 Booker Prize-winner is a superb piece of world-building that exposes the devastations caused to working class...

Douglas Stuart Stuart, finalist for the 2020 Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, appears at the festival April 18 with Andrew O’Hagan, author of “Mayflies,” in conversation with Times writer Anousha Sakoui. RSVP for free at events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks. If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Growing up in 1980s Glasgow amid a working class beaten down by Thatcherism, Shuggie Bain watches ...

Best books of 2020: Fiction 21 Dec, 2020 06:00 AM 5 minutes to read Financial Times Hamnet, by Maggie OFarrell Its summer, and a plague is sweeping the country. Maggie OFarrells novel transports the reader back to 1596, and to Shakespeares family — in particular his wild and mystical wife Agnes (as she is named here) and his ill-fated son Hamnet — in the years preceding the play that took his name. Motherhood and scenes of pastoral life are described in exquisite detail. Real Life,...

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize The critics’ top eight choices based on Christmas selections in national newspapers, the London Evening Standard, the TLS, The Spectator and the New Statesman. Plus, we take a look at some of the other best books which were released in 2020.  Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart  The winner of this year’s Booker Prize is a tale of poverty, addiction and abuse set in and around Glasgow in the 1980s. Shuggie Bain’s mother is an alcoholic; hi...