Shibboleth, 9781787705555
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Oxford, identity, secrets: can Edward fake belonging among the elite?
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    384 pages

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    19 August 2025

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Summary

Shibboleth: A Novel of Identity, Deceit, and Belonging at Oxford

Want to make it among the wealthy, upper-class students at the University of Oxford? Then you’d better have something interesting to say when people ask about your identity.

Luckily, Edward does. Though he can boast neither an expensive education nor a nice room in college, he does have a long-dead Muslim grandfather from an obscure African country… At the beginning of his second year, everyone wants to get clo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781787705555
ISBN-10:1787705552
Author:Thomas Peermohamed Lambert
Publisher:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Imprint:Europa Editions (UK) Ltd
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:19 August 2025
Weight:412g
Dimensions:35mm x 280mm x 137mm
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Critics Review

‘Gloriously impious and thrillingly alive, Shibboleth rides the blast waves of epistemic and ideological chaos rocking the great centres of Western learning. Every page hosts an evenly matched bout between insight and hilarity.’ - Rob Doyle, author of Threshold

About The Author

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert

Thomas Peermohamed Lambert is a writer who divides his time between London and Oxford. In 2022, he was selected as a London Library Emerging Writer, and he is currently a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford. Shibboleth is his first novel.

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