An Oxford Masquerade... at Hatchards Piccadilly

We are delighted to welcome Thomas Peermohamed Lamberthere to Hatchards for an evening in celebration of his debut novel

Shibboleth

If you 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 close to him—including, to his astonishment, the beautiful and highly unstable Angelica Mountbatten-Jones. As Edward scrabbles to fit in, his new friends start to grow suspicious. How will they react when they realise he hasn’t been entirely honest?

A darkly comic debut, Shibboleth drags the English campus novel into the divided, multicultural, hyperactive present day.

Thomas will be in conversation with Tomiwa Owolade, author of “This is Not America: Why We Need a British Conversation About Race” -a bold new framework for understanding race in Britain today.

Join us if you can for what promises a fascinating evening!