An ominous black cat... the thirteenth of Friday... an injured hero striving against grave odds to win a high stakes battle... Sound like the recipe for an old fashioned gothic horror novel? Wrong! These are just a few of the delectable ingredients that make up Khyrunnisa’s hilarious and entertaining new novel, Smash It, Butterfingers!. And be assured, it promises to be way more gripping than any run-of-the-mill thrillers you may have laid hands on lately.

  Khyrunnisa, who has penned a number of well received sportsthemed books including Howzzat Butterfingers!, Goal Butterfingers! and Clean Bowled, Butterfingers!, chooses to build her latest story around badminton – a sport that is steadily burgeoning in popularity across India.

  As with the other books in the series, the protagonist of Smash It, Butterfingers! is the effervescent and perennially endearing Amar Kishen, aka Butterfingers, a class VIII student at Green Park Higher....