The Reading Room

Each month a member of the team reviews a book of their choosing, irrelevant of genre or publishing date.

Sea of poppies

Amitav Ghosh

Published: 2008, Viking Press India

Sea of Poppies, a complex and magnificent tale, is an historical drama novel and part of the Ibis’ trilogy, novels written by Ghosh covering the opium trade between India and China during the first half of the 19th century.

The made-in-India manager

R. Gopalakrishnan, Ranjan Banerjee

Published: 2018, Hachette India

With some of the world’s leading companies boasting Indian management, Gopalakrishnan and Banerjee’s book explores what it is that makes Indian born and bred managers so successful on a global scale.

Merger Masters – Tales of Arbitrage

Kate Welling and Mario Gabelli

Published: 2018, Columbia Business School Publishing

Rather than being a technical tome, this book articulates the rewards and challenges of risk arbitrage through stories. Divided into two parts, the first runs through seventeen leading practitioners with a chapter allocated to each.