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4 Jul 2021 • 1 min read
Book Reviews

A horrid place where parents dump children

First of all, I would like to congratulate the author of the book Horrid High , Payal Kapadia, who has done an excellent job. The characters Ferg Gottin, Immy Tate, Phil Fingersmith, Fermina Filch and Bat were the characters who played the roles of the

26 Aug 2016 • 1 min read
Blogs

The Swaddle: Payal Kapadia’s Less-Horrid Sequel to ‘Horrid High’

Gone are the Scumbags, Lowlifes, Dimwits and Nincompoops. The houses at Horrid High have been renamed. The school is no longer horrid. Ferg Gottin and his friends Fermina Filch, Immy Tate and Phil Fingersmith are back for another year at Horrid High, and they’

12 May 2016 • 2 min read
Deccan Chronicle

"Where everything is horrid" - Deccan Chronicle

‘Horrid High’ is the world’s most horrid school in new children’s book New Delhi: Award-winning author of children’s books Payal Kapadia was at a writer’s workshop when the character of a school bully came

25 Apr 2016 • 2 min read
Book Reviews

The Hindustan Times - "Wickedly, horridly horrid"

Is life getting dull and boring? Pick up the “wickedly funny” book Horrid High: Back to School by Payal Kapadia It is pretty unusual, but the greatest compliment that I can pay Payal Kapadia is that her new book is truly horrid. Yep, doesn’

8 Apr 2016 • 2 min read
Horrid High: Back To School

The Hindu - "Malory Towers with a touch of Dahl"

In most school novels, you have boarding schools set in castles, filled with helpful teachers, great friends and superb food. Children spend most of their time solving mysteries or discovering fantastic beasts. Journalist-turned-author Payal Kapadia’s Horrid High series is set in a boarding

7 Apr 2016 • 1 min read
Businessworld

Tulika Books - The More Packed With Facts And Figures, The Better They Sell

Browse through any of the must-read book lists for children, and Tulika Publishers is sure to find multiple entries in these lists. This year, Tulika turns 20 and its founder Radhika Menon only wants to do more in the children’s publishing arena.

7 Mar 2016 • 4 min read
Horrid High: Back To School

The Indian Express - "We live in a Series and Best-Seller Driven Market"

Ask her what’s her recipe for a successful children’s book and pat comes the reply from author Payal Kapadia. “I don’t take myself seriously. In fact, my daughters Keya (12) and Nyla (18) are the first readers and critics of my

29 Feb 2016 • 3 min read
Events & Appearances

Payal Kapadia takes CIS Students on a trek through the world of fantasy

Bangalore, 27 February 2016: To encourage reading among children, Canadian International School (CIS) invited the award-winning children’s author Payal Kapadia to interact with the school children. As part of the interaction Payal read sections from her recently launched book, ‘Horrid High – Back

27 Feb 2016 • 2 min read
Book Reviews

Hindustan Times reviews Horrid High: Back to School: "A delight for young readers"

Seldom do you come across a novel for young minds, which has the power to engage the easily distracted young guns of this age. However, author Payal Kapadia’s novel, Horrid High Back to School, manages to do it with ease.

15 Feb 2016 • 1 min read
Events & Appearances

Horrid High at The Kala Ghoda Arts Festival

  The sessions will be dedicated to picture books, chapter books, non-fiction, mythology and mysteries. Sessions with authors, workshops, even games: the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival’s children’s literature section has lots for book-loving kids Track the mystery to Holmes’s missing magnifying

7 Feb 2016 • 4 min read
Blogs

Hippocampus Library interviews Payal Kapadia: "“There’s a little part of us that remains a child forever."

Payal Kapadia’s debut book, Wisha Wozzariter, won the Crossword Award for Children’s Writing in 2013. It is also on the “101 Indian Children’s Books We Love!” list. After getting a B.A.(Hons.) degree in English Literature from St. Xavier’s

3 Jan 2016 • 2 min read
Blogs

DailyO.in reviews Horrid High: Back to School: "My favourite children's books of 2015"

Horrid High: Back to School by Payal Kapadia returns with another adventure. Horrid High is no longer the horrid school that it once was – Granny Grit is now principal and has a new fleet of teachers. But when Granny Grit has to rush to

24 Dec 2015 • 1 min read
Blogs

21 Top Indian Authors to Follow on Twitter

India has a rich literary tradition, especially in the regional languages. Today, more and more Indian authors are making their mark in the Indian and foreign markets with their interesting, unique and excellent work. Many more authors today write in English, and many novels

23 Nov 2015 • 1 min read
Blogs

The Good Book Corner interviews Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia’s Wisha Wozzariter won the Crossword Award for Children’s Writing in 2013. It is also on the 101 Indian Children’s Books We Love! list. We loved Horrid High and this December the next in the series Horrid High: Back to

20 Nov 2015 • 4 min read
Blogs

What the Far Out reviews Horrid High

My opinion on Indian authors took a complete 360 after I read “Horrid High” by Payal Kapadia. The fictional and extremely humorous story revolved around an unwanted child (Ferg Gottin), sent away to a boarding school, and all the interesting characters he meets along

9 Nov 2015 • 2 min read
Blogs

PlusMinusN'More reviews Horrid High

Horrid High by Payal Kapadia is about young Ferg Gottin, who has mean and uncaring parents. Ferg and his best friend, Ace, go to Sunnyvale School. Ferg’s parents, who want to get rid of him, decide to send him to a place where

21 Jul 2015 • 1 min read
Blogs

The Swaddle reviews Horrid High

Ferg Gottin could have been a Dimwit, a Lowlife, or a Nincompoop, but he’s not—he’s a Scumbag. But really, Ferg isn’t actually any of these things. These are the names of the houses to which the children of Horrid High

25 Mar 2015 • 2 min read
Blogs

PlusMinus'n'More reviews Wisha Wozzariter

Wisha Wozzariter by Payal Kapadia is two books in one. The first is the story of Wisha Wozzariter (Wish-I-was-a-writer), a ten-year old girl who wishes to become a writer. She hates good books more than a bad book because they make her sigh and

18 Dec 2014 • 1 min read
Book Reviews

Indian Express reviews Horrid High

Born to parents who are not particularly interested in raising a child, 11-year-old Ferg Gottin is dumped in a residential school called Happy High. Only, it is really Horrid High, where orphans and abandoned children are sent to be forgotten, and where the teachers

7 Dec 2014 • 1 min read
Book Reviews

The Hindu reviews Horrid High: High School Horror

Ferg Gottin has extraordinary skills but less- than ordinary parents. His mother searches for schools where she can ‘dump’ Ferg and forget about him and comes across Horrid High. Ferg has to manage and cope in his new school. A humorous story of a

24 Oct 2014 • 1 min read
Book Reviews

Mint Lounge reviews Horrid High

In a simpler world, bad teachers would be called out for what they are and punished. It’s a compelling idea and one that is at the centre of Payal Kapadia’s Horrid High, for readers aged 10 and above. Ferg Gottin, Phil Fingersmith,

12 Oct 2014 • 2 min read
Book Reviews

Hindustan Times reviews Horrid High

The story of eleven year old Ferg Gottin, whose parents quite literally want to forget him, Horrid High is Payal Kapadia’s second book after the award-winning childrens’ novel Wisha Wozzariter. Much like Wozzariter, Horrid High makes an immediate connection with its

25 Sep 2014 • 4 min read
Horrid High

New Asian Writing interviews Payal Kapadia

Payal Kapadia studied English Literature at St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai. After studying Journalism at Northwestern University in Chicago, she worked with Outlook in Mumbai and The Japan Times in Tokyo. Her debut novella, “Wisha Wozzariter,” won the Crossword Award for Children’s Writing

5 Sep 2014 • 7 min read
Interviews

An interview with the talented Roger Dahl, illustrator of Wisha Wozzariter

Earning a living as a cartoonist may be the stuff that childhood dreams are made of, but they seldom turn into reality. Roger Dahl is one of the fortunate few who have made the grade, and it all started in Tokyo. For over 20

25 Apr 2014 • 7 min read