Kololo Hill by Neema Shah
KOLOLO HILL
Kololo Hill is Neema Shah’s first novel and is published on 18th February 2021.
It was a 2021 Pick for Foyles, Daily Mail, The Irish Times, Cosmopolitan and Eastern Eye.
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ABOUT NEEMA
After leaving university, Neema Shah built a career in marketing, specialising in TV, digital and brand strategy for companies including the BBC. Neema has always been an avid reader, but rekindled her early love of writing in 2015 while doing a short online course. She is now trying to make up for lost time.
Neema Shah’s grandparents left India for East Africa in the 1940s. Kololo Hill is inspired by their lives, as well as those who were expelled from Uganda by brutal ruler Idi Amin.
She was born and raised in London, spending many school holidays with family in East Africa. Neema also once ran away to join a circus in New York, but that’s a story for another time…
PRIZES & PRAISE
Neema Shah won the Literary Consultancy Pen Factor Live 2017 with an early extract of Kololo Hill. She was runner-up in the York Festival of Writing Best Opening Chapter 2017 and the DGA First Novel Prize 2018, shortlisted for the Bath Novel Prize 2018 and longlisted for the Exeter Novel Prize, SI Leeds Literary Prize and Retreat Novel Prize, all in 2018.
Neema also writes short stories and flash fiction. Achievements include winning #WriteCBC in 2018 and second prize in the Casket of Fictional Delights Flash Fiction competition 2017 , judged by Kit de Waal. Check out her blog for more on Neema’s path to publication, book recommendations and the highs and lows of writing a novel.
