Frogs under the Wheels

With settings ranging from India to Brighton, these stories have a delightful humour and sheer humanity. Whether serious, light-hearted or sensitive, the author weaves a magic that is all his own. The introductions to each story are a treat: sharp and effective, often raising a chuckle in their own right. From a suitor clapping hands to ward of snakes and Narayan cheating Satan, to the Marroccos cafe in Brighton and Hove and the wife ‘lost’ on the M4, plus the amazing tales of Frankie, these stories have something for everyone and anyone. Funny. Moving. True. And what is more, completely entertaining.

 This book of short stories is strangely compelling. Some of them leave you with a question mark hovering over your head, like a baffled character in a comic, yet still you can't wait to turn to the next one.

 Krishnan came to this country from India in 1961 so his yarns have settings as diverse as the Airline Staff College in Bombay, the furnace fires of hell and Hove seafront near to the King Alfred.

 Some startling, all good fun, they range from the mysterious gratitude of the man knocked down by his father's car as it squashes frogs on a rain-lashed road to a lost vision of love among the Cessna flying-lesson planes at Shoreham Airport.

 Mike Bacon, The Argus, Sussex