The Latest Breaking News from Shy

BBC announces new dark comedy drama

The six part series is named Shy & Lola and features an unlikely duo who ‘turn out to have a talent for crime’.

Evening Standard · Feb 23

‘They were running a game on me’: Woman hands over $4,500 for a car from someone she trusted, and you can guess what happened next

She trusted the wrong person

We Got This Covered · Dec 1, 2025

TV tonight: Alan Partridge is back to tackle the wellbeing of Britain

Steve Coogan’s totemic character is back – and this time he’s talking mental health. Plus, a brilliant film adaptation of Max Porter’s Shy. Here’s what to watch this evening

The Guardian - UK · Oct 3, 2025

Shygirl: 'It's really affirming to have people like Madonna and Björk reach out to connect through music'

The Mercury Award nominee talks going to Alton Towers with PinkPantheress, being inspired by Raye, and bagging her first ever MOBO nomination

Evening Standard · Feb 6, 2024

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in September

Writers, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

'Shy' follows the interior monologue of a troubled teen boy

Max Porter's compulsively readable primal scream of a novel offers a compassionate portrait of boy jerked around by uncontrollable mood swings that lead to self-sabotaging decisions.

WEKU · May 3, 2023

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of Shy by Max Porter and Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld.

The Independent UK · Apr 12, 2023

Max Porter: ‘Empower yourself to think carefully about men and masculinity’

As he releases his fourth novel, ‘Shy’, Max Porter talks to Patrick Sproull about the end of his ‘boyhood’ trilogy, sensitivity readers, and still reading Philip Roth and Ted Hughes

The Independent UK · Apr 6, 2023

Shy by Max Porter review – exhilarating portrait of a lost boy in 90s Britain

A young delinquent takes stock of his bad luck and bad decisions in this brief but brilliant novel from the author of Grief Is the Thing With Feathers

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3, 2023

Football Dreams: The Academy dad told to step back from son's training over 'pressure'

In the latest episode of Channel 4's Football Dreams: The Academy, Shy's father Mo is given some words of advice from Crystal Palace Football Club Academy

Daily Mirror · Sep 1, 2022