The Reading Room

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

Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans

Melanie Mitchell

Published: 2019, Pelican

Questions such as will AI take over the world, cause mass unemployment, make humans obsolete or create a Marxist utopia feel like they are in abundance today.

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.