When I was back in England a couple of weeks ago I recorded a program with BBC Radio 4 called Inheritance Books. I talked about Alan Garner’s dark masterpiece THE WEIRDSTONE OF BRISINGAMEN which I was obsessed/terrified/inspired by as a child, and also the brilliant translation by Tiina Nunnally of Hans Christian Andersen’s FAIRY TALES, which finally allows Andersen’s wonderfully strange voice to come through clearly and includes some extraordinary tales I did not know before including the unnerving THE SHADOW and his final tale AUNTIE TOOTHACHE.
