Thrills And Spills - Thrilling Tales
Ruskin Bond . Rupa Publications India . English
The test of a good story, Ruskin Bond says, is when a writer is able to catch a young reader's attention from page one, preferably paragraph one and hold it to the end. Each one of the stories that he has included in this collection pass this test and with flying colors.
Categories: Short Stories
About the Author
Ruskin Bond's first novel, The Room on the Roof, written when he was seventeen, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1957. Since then he has written several novels (including Vagrants in the Valley, A Flight of Pigeons and Delhi Is Not Far), essays, poems and children's books, many of which have been published by Penguin India. He has also written over 500 short stories and articles that have appeared in a number of magazines and anthologies. He received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1993 and the Padma Shri in 1999.
