Neema Shah

Neema pursued a career in marketing after studying Law at University College London. She also once ran away to join a circus in New York but that’s a story for another time…

Her debut novel Kololo Hill was published in the UK by Picador. It was inspired by the 1972 Ugandan Asian expulsion and her own family background. The novel won the The Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Live and placed as runner-up in the First Novel Prize.

Neema’s second novel A Thread of Light was published in 2025.