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Digital Book Club: February 2025

This month’s Digital Book Club title is Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart.

The extraordinary, powerful second novel from the Booker prizewinning author of Shuggie Bain, Young Mungo is both a vivid portrayal of working-class life and the deeply moving story of the dangerous first love of two young men: Mungo and James.

Born under different stars, Protestant Mungo and Catholic James live in a hyper-masculine world. They are caught between two of Glasgow’s housing estates where young working-class men divide themselves along sectarian lines, and fight territorial battles for the sake of reputation.

They should be sworn enemies if they’re to be seen as men at all, and yet they become best friends as they find a sanctuary in the doocot that James has built for his prize racing pigeons.

As they begin to fall in love, they dream of escaping the grey city, and Mungo must work hard to hide his true self from all those around him, especially from his elder brother Hamish, a local gang leader with a brutal reputation to uphold.

Young Mungo is available on BorrowBox as an eBook and eAudiobook with no waiting.

Previous titles

January 2025 - The Illuminations by Andrew O’Hagan
December 2024 - The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani
November 2024 - The Library of Heartbeats by Laura Imai Messina
October 2024 - A House of Ghosts by W.C. Ryan
September 2024 - The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
August 2024 - Bad Men by Julie Mae Cohen
July 2024 - Another Life by Kristin Hannah
June 2024 - Big Swiss by Jean Beagin
May 2024 – The Colony by Audrey Magee
April 2024 - Happy Head by Josh Silver
March 2024 - Old God's Time by Sebastian Barry
February 2024 – The Witches of Vardo by Anya Bergman
January 2024 - The Vanishing of Margaret Small by Neil Alexander

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Last updated 01 February 2025