Death Comes To Matheran

Shabnam Minwalla has spent most of her life with words – editing her school magazine, working as a journalist with the Times of India and writing non-fiction, for example, a book on the quirky area of Colaba in Mumbai. She writes food columns and features for various publications, but what she most enjoys is writing books for children. Her first book, The Six Spellmakers of Dorabji Street, is being used as a reader and has been performed as a play by many Mumbai schools. Her books for younger readers—The Shy Supergirl, Lucky Girl and When Jiya Met Urmila—are immensely popular. The Shy Supergirl was shortlisted for the Singapore-based Red Dot Award and When Jiya Met Urmila won the Neev Book Award. This is Shabnam's third book with HarperCollins. The first, What Maya Saw, a fantasy clue-hunt in Mumbai, was published in 2017 and was nominated for the Crossword Book Award, the Neev Book Award and the Peek A Book Award. Her second was the haunting thriller Saira Zariwala is Afraid. She has been a speaker at the Jaipur Lit Fest and has conducted workshops and book readings at Bookaroo, the Kala Ghoda Festival, the Tata Lit Live festival and other lit fests around the country. Shabnam got her MA in Journalism at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. She was also a Chevening Scholar at Wolfson College in Cambridge.