UNCOVERED: Shy | History Defined

Adwoa Aboah dresses 'even more absurd' since becoming a mother

Top Boy star Adwoa Aboah tries to be "even more absurd" in her style since becoming a mother to fight against societal expectations, admitting she regrets having "wasted so much energy" obsessing over her body pre-pregnancy.

BANG Premier · Oct 23

Father of five killed in his own home after hunter’s stray bullet tears through wall

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The Independent UK · Oct 14

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

U.S. airman accused of murdering woman found dead along hiking trail months after she vanished

Quinterius Chappelle, 24, faces second-degree murder charges in the killing of 21-year-old Sahela Sangrait

The Independent UK · Mar 17, 2025

Shy by Max Porter audiobook review – tale of a ne’er do well, done well

Joe Gaminara’s narration pumps up the lyricism of Porter’s scuzzy odyssey of drugs, drink, youth violence and doomed romance

The Guardian - UK · Jul 5, 2024

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