Beastly Tales. From Here and There.

First edition. Small 8vo. Pp. [vii], 130. Tan coloured cloth boards, lettered in black to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper (priced £5.99 net to front flap). B/w line drawings by Ravi Shankar.

Signed by Author to title page.

"Because it was very hot in my house one day and I could not concentrate on my work, I decided to write a summer story involving mangoes and a river. By the time, I had finished writing 'The Crocodile and the Monkey' (in a cool room lent to me by a friend), another story and other animals had begun stirring in my mind. And so it went on until all ten of these beastly tales were born or re-born."

A collection of anthropomorphised animal fables in whimsical rhymed couplets hailing in origin from India, China, Greece, Ukraine and the author's fertile imagination. "An enjoyable... allegorical collection which has playful lessons." –Devesh Patel, Contemporary Poetry Review