The Colony of Shadows is the first novel by UEA alumnus Bikram Sharma and is published by Hachette India this week. Bikram is from Bangalore and graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) in 2015, prior to which he received BA in English and Creative Writing from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He was awarded the Charles Wallace India Trust writing fellowship at the University of Kent in 2016.