Lisa Baker

Literary Agent, Foreign Rights Director for @AitkenAlexander Associates.

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

The best possible news! What an incredible achievement. @AitkenAlexander

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

Shy is a number one bestseller! Huge congratulations to @maxjohnporter and thank you to all of the booksellers and readers who have helped get it there! 🎉🎉🎉

[Stuart Evers @StuartEvers]

Ask and ye shall receive. Little Fluffy Clouds as performed by Donald Trump

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

Wonderful and deserved news! What a great list. @larapawson @AitkenAlexander @CBeditions

[The Goldsmiths Prize @GoldsmithsPrize]

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2024 shortlist!

Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! 🎉🥳🎉

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

Excellent line up; can’t wait to read what you discover @maxjohnporter @AitkenAlexander

[The Booker Prizes @TheBookerPrizes]

We’re thrilled to reveal the #InternationalBooker2025 judging panel. ✨

@MaxJohnPorter will act as chair of judges, and will be joined by @CalebFemi_, @SansyG, @AntonHur and @beth_orton.

Find out more: https://t.co/IL8S162F8L

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

A first glimpse at STEVE! @AitkenAlexander @maxjohnporter @FaberBooks

[Netflix UK & Ireland @NetflixUK]

Production wraps this week on STEVE, a new film starring Academy Award® winner Cillian Murphy and Jay Lycurgo.

A reimagining of Max Porter's bestselling novel SHY, the film follows a pivotal day in the life of a headteacher and his students at a last-chance reform college. Coming soon.

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

A brand new stunner. More tomorrow! @maxjohnporter @AitkenAlexander

[Mair Bosworth @MairBosworth]

A war photographer grapples with guilt, grief, Englishness, the politics of the image, looking and not looking.

A new five-part fiction series written for Radio 4 by @maxjohnporter. Read by Tim McInnerny.

Starting Monday on @BBCRadio4 + @BBCSounds
https://t.co/qviqLsS73b

[Faber Books @FaberBooks]

'I just adore Max's writing... Shy broke my heart.' Cillian Murphy

Shy by @maxjohnporter is the story of a few strange hours in the life of a teenage boy. It's about being lost in the dark, and realising you are not alone.

https://t.co/GRfYAieyDY

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

Come and work with us! 👀
https://t.co/FTQtBCE4rk

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

@larapawson @AitkenAlexander Ah but we are the lucky ones!

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

Echoing everything here. A fearless retelling of a fearful time, and of the triumph of sisterhood over misogyny. @AitkenAlexander.

[Jenny Lord @jennyjennylord]

So damn proud of brilliant @chimenesuleyman and her utterly heart-piercing, perspective-shifting book THE CHAIN

Thank you @thetimes for this incredible spread 🔥

Published NEXT WEEK @wnbooks

Get down to your local @Waterstones

Or pre-order here: https://t.co/VJqT5fcKZY

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

@StuartEvers You were one! Saluting you back

[Jude Rogers 💙 @juderogers]

This is now up on @theQuietus - and thanks to @KatyaTaylor I just emailed Penelope Farmer this morning. What a week. ❤️❤️❤️

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Cillian Murphy will star in ‘STEVE’ for Netflix.

The film follows a headteacher of a last-chance reform school who struggles to keep his students in line, while also grappling with his spiraling mental health.

(Source: Deadline)

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

the news is out! @AitkenAlexander

[Ethan Nosowsky @Nosowsky]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Max Porter's SHY to be adapted for @netflix, with the great Cillian Murphy starring in it and producing! Bit of a point of view shift--welcome, Steve, get your due! @GraywolfPress @FaberBooks @LisaIndiaBaker @maxjohnporter

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

Congratulations, @StuartEvers x

[ALCS @ALCS_UK]

We’re so excited that for the first time this year, the @RSLiterature V.S. Pritchett Short Story Prize will be part of the #ALCSAwards! Congratulations to the 13 storytellers who made this year’s longlist 🙌

https://t.co/p0UAc3i6cj

[Jude Rogers 💙 @juderogers]

Hi! A few of you have asked if you could buy my book for a Christmas present with a personalised dedication...and I've worked out how to do it with @Bookishcrick! Drop an email to [email protected], say you want to order one to Abergavenny shop, then I can pop in and sign...

[Jude Rogers 💙 @juderogers]

So chuffed to finally get the brilliant @tracey_thorn for Songbook. We talk about Lavinia Greenlaw's The Importance Of Music To Girls, Ian Penman, Paul Morley, Julie Burchill, Billie Holiday's Lady Sings the Blues, @JonSavage1966's England's Dreaming...

[Lisa Baker @LisaIndiaBaker]

@juderogers Half Cup on Judd xx

[Jude Rogers 💙 @juderogers]

"Me and @BrettAndersonHQ used to spend long, long hours listening to music and [@richardosman] would just be in the next room with his Mega City Four turned up even louder." Festive special alert! Our first of 3 Songbook episodes for Xmas is up with the wonderful @matosman…

[Samira Ahmed @SamiraAhmedUK]

Tonight's the night.. On @bbcfrontrow 715pm with curator @NiallHodson and bad record cover connoisseur @juderogers.. https://t.co/xIXSVhBUA7

[White Rabbit Books @WhiteRabbitBks]

Earlier this year we published the paperback of The Sound of Being Human, and here's another look at this powerful extract in which @juderogers explores how certain songs - in her case The Flying Pickets’ Only You - can unlock such visceral emotions... https://t.co/JFoYlIt5AX