what Booker winner Douglas Stuart did next
- Written by Peter Robinson, Adjunct Senior Lecturer, UNSW Sydney
Douglas Stuart. Photo: Clive SmithIn the suspenseful opening to Douglas Stuart’s second novel, Young Mungo, it is not clear if 15-year-old Mungo is being abducted or freely going with the two men who collect him from his mother.
After the first dozen or so pages, it gradually becomes apparent that the men, “two alkies” that his...





