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
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
Blogs Goodbooks.in reviews Wisha Wozzariter Say the title of the book aloud and you have the gist of the story already. Wisha Wozzariter is a slim book that outlines the entire creative process of writing a story for young wannabe writers and those with an overload of imagination. The 23 Apr 2014 • 2 min read
Blogs Young India Books reviews Wisha Wozzariter Wisha hated bad books, but she hated one thing even more: good ones. Good books always left her feeling she could do better if she were to write a book of her own. She’d put down a good book, sighing, ‘Now that’s 16 Feb 2014 • 1 min read
Blogs The Book Worm reviews Wisha Wozzariter A few weeks back, my daughter took the book with her to the Kahaani Karnival held in Mumbai and got it signed by the author. One happy kid! 🙂 What really got me interested in Wisha Wozzariter by Payal Kapadia was the premise. It was 11 Feb 2014 • 3 min read
Blogs Saffron Tree reviews Wisha Wozzariter When the crocus was announced this year, it sort of made me think of a book I just read, in a totally different light. We all undertake journeys, almost all the time. Children take the school bus and we go to work in different 8 Dec 2013 • 3 min read
Blogs ingoodbooks.com reviews Wisha Wozzariter Wisha Wozzariter by Payal Kapadia is a delightful read for all young ones and the older ones (like me) who still call Enid Blyton their favourite author; followed by Roald Dahl (who I discovered in my adulthood but quickly devoured most of his writings) 22 Aug 2012 • 1 min read
