We choose this year to announce the shortlist after the actual announcement . This was mainly as we all had a number of books to read this year and a number were 400 plus pages we gave everyone chance to read them , I read them all in the time but haven’t reviewed them all yet this week I hope to be done and will look back at the six below titles as we try to find the actual shadow winner .Well our six books are
Fever dream by Samantha Schweblin
Compass by Mathias Enard
The Unseen by Roy Jacobsen
Judas by Amos Oz
Fish have no feet by Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Bricks and Mortar by Clemens Meyer
So there is our six a great list I feel as it has two books by two of my favourite publisher Fitzcarraldo and Maclehose press. What has been your favourite book
Hi Stu, I read Fever dreams earlier in the year, not a book you forget but I felt I had had to work at it and as for Compass I’ve tried to get into it for 18 months now on 3 different attempts but keep getting bogged down or sidetracked. I.ll check out the reviews on the others when they come out
Pat