Book of the Week

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
Recommended by Luke Leventis

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a science fiction masterpiece with huge implications for the future. After the disastrous 'World War Terminus' radioactive dust is spread all over the world. Because of the fear of being dubbed a 'Special' or a nuclear mutant, much of the Earth’s population has migrated to colonies in the solar system.

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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Recommended by Arsh Parekh

In The Remains of the Day, the reader is taken on a journey with a great ​(not that he’d agree) butler through the English countryside. Stevens is the perfect example of an immaculate and faultless butler.

Just after reading the first half of the novel, it’s clear simply from his style of narration that Stevens pays much attention to detail. When he describes some of the events in the past, especially leading up to the death of his father, he seems almost cold and insensitive. However, once the reader reads on more, they realise how seriously he takes his role as a butler.

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The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Recommended by Thomas Wong

At once a belief underpinning perhaps the most advanced nation on earth and a seething conflation of avarice, arrogance, and narcissism, the pursuit of the elusive American Dream has definitively shaped modern society, acting as both cause and catalyst of innovation the world over. Aptly does the cautionary tale of the Great Gatsby illustrate such failures of man ever-proud.

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Fire in Babylon: How the West Indies Cricket Team Brought a People to its Feet by Simon Lister
Recommended by Rahul de Silva

The West Indian cricket side of the late 1970s and 1980s is arguably the greatest cricket team of all time, but how did this come to be? What was the background behind the side and what was the social impact of the team?

Simon Lister’s Fire in Babylon explores these facets and explains how Clive Lloyd managed to unite the West Indies team. Lister is widely regarded as an authoritative journalist, and his awe of Lloyd and his team is apparent throughout. The book is rich in fact, with first-hand accounts by the main protagonists.