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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

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

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

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'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.

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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

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

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

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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

'I had a baby in private after buying sperm online - I didn't want a partner'

Skylar, 28, decided to use a sperm donor to have her daughter, so she didn't have to 'share' her child with anyone else, and kept the news secret from family and friends

Daily Mirror

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