Sherds Podcast

Caradog Prichard’s One Moonlit Night was originally published in Welsh in 1961.    The book is a classic of Welsh litera... Read more

Lud-in-the-Mist by Hope MIrrlees was originally published in 1926.   Lud-in-the-Mist is the name of the capital city of ... Read more

Russell Hoban’s Riddley Walker was originally published in 1980.  The novel is set in Kent some two or three thousand ye... Read more

Hans Henny Jahnn was a German organ-builder, playwright and novelist. In this episode, we look at the only novel of his ... Read more

In this episode, we look at Zyranna Zateli's At Twilight They Return: a Novel in Ten Tales (1993), translated by David C... Read more

Jean Ray’s The Mainz Psalter was originally published in 1930.   We read the story in Jeff and Ann Vandermeer’s anotholo... Read more

The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas was originally published in Nynorsk in 1957, and is available from Peter Owen books and now a... Read more

The Witches of Kyiv and Other Gothic Tales collects a range of stories by Ukrainian Romantic author, Orest Somov which w... Read more

In this episode, we look at Algernon Blackwood's story, 'The Man Whom the Trees Loved', which was published in his colle... Read more

On this episode of Sherds Podcast, I’m joined by writer, Quentin S. Crisp, to discuss his new novel, Graves (2019), publ... Read more

In this episode, I’m joined by Patricia Pulham, Professor of Victorian Literature at The University of Surrey, to discus... Read more

‘The Wind’ concerns the fate of Letty, a young girl plucked out of a life of ease in Virginia and forced to move to the ... Read more

Ghada Samman’s ‘Beirut Nightmares’ was originally published in Arabic in 1976.  Set at the height of the Lebanese Civil ... Read more

One contemporary reviewer referred to The Hill of Dreams (1907) as the “study, rather than the story, of a morbid tempe... Read more

Jasieński’s I Burn Paris upset the French authorities enough to have him expelled from the country upon its publication ... Read more