Tomorrow I am in London at the actual shortlist party and spending the day at London book fair. So as are tradition is we have announced the shadow shortlist , between the 8 members of our jury this year we have read 95 books each book had at least five people read them . So our shortlist is as follows tomorrow we will find out how our list compares to the actual list.
Mend the Living by Maylis Da Kerangal
Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe
The story of Lost child by elena ferrante
That is our six it was very close with one book just missing by a hair making our six so from Japan to France we have our six.
