Booker Prize winner Douglas Stuart will feature alongside others such as Andrew O’Hagan, Graeme Armstrong and Kirstin Innes ORGANISERS of a Scottish book festival have scored a literary coup by securing the Booker prize winner for a guest appearance. Douglas Stuart will be joining acclaimed Scottish writers Andrew O’Hagan and Graeme Armstrong at Paisley Book Festival in February. As well as winning the 2020 Booker Prize, Stuart’s gritty autobiographical novel has also been named Scottish Waterstones’ Book of the Year. Along with O’Hagan’s most recent book, Mayflies, and Armstrong’s The Young Team, Stuart’s debut novel, Shuggie Bain, shines a light on the complexities of class and masculine identity.