Shibboleth

"This wickedly funny debut novel prick the deflating balloon of 2020-style identity politics." * The Times *
"Splendid.....an exceptionally good comedy." * The Telegraph *
“I was engrossed in this funny, intelligent campus novel populated with fascinating characters.”  * The Daily Mail *
"A bold, well-paced and provocative debut by a sharp and talented new writer." * Literary Review *
Novel of the week "Shrewdly skewering "performative activism", this is the kind of book that reminds you why the novel, as a form, is so special." * The Week *
"Shibboleth paints an amusing, disparaging portrait of campus life." * The London Standard *
"A talent for comedy is rare in fiction. Lambert has it, in abundance. He knows the best models from the past and applies them with devastating effect the follies of the present. Imagine Waugh on woke, either of the Amis’s on identity politics. Hilarity and despair are guaranteed." * Tim Parks, author of Mr Geography *
"Shibboleth is an engrossing and thought-provoking debut. It is a pleasure to read a novel that skilfully navigates through the tricky waters of contemporary identity politics. Thomas Peermohamed Lambert is a name to watch." * Tomiwa Owolade, author of This is Not America *
“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 *
"If Kingsley Amis were alive today and wrote a brilliantly funny novel laughing at our contemporary pieties, it might read something like this."   * Toby Lloyd, author of Fervour *
"A razor-sharp comedy of manners perfectly attuned to the particularities of our time." * Sarah Thomas, author of Queen K *
"Funny, interesting, and unique, a campus satire for the era of wokeness." * Alexander Starritt, author of We Germans *