Robert Malsolm
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews ‘JOHN OF JOHN’ the 3rd novel from queer Booker Prize Winner DOUGLAS STUART
If Douglas Stuart’s first two novels, Shuggy Bain and Young Mungo, were black and white studies of an unrelentingly bleak gay adolescence in Glasgow, the Scottish – American’s author’s third book, John of John, places his young queer protagonist on the island of Lewis and Harris, in the Outer Hebrides, where the harshness of life…
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Queerguru’s Robert Malcolm reviews Mark Kydd on “OUR MARTIN IN THE BACKGROUND”
Our Martin in the Background * * * * Scottish Storytelling Centre. I’m not sure how I missed this gem at the 2025 Festival Fringe, but last week, Mark Kydd returned to Edinburgh for a special LGBT+ History Month and Valentine’s Day performance of his self-penned monologue, Our Martin in the Background, to a…


