Book of the Week

The Picture of Dorian Gray
Recommended by Mani Collins

The character of Lord Henry in Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, is seen by some as autobiographical: the flurry of languid witticisms, the lavish and extravagant lifestyle, the amused fascination with sin.

Lord Henry serves as the main influence for Dorian Gray's flirtation with the perilous mysteries of life and sin. His counterpart, Basil Hallward, is the principal of moral probity in a book exhibiting the romance of sin. If Lord Henry comes to represent all the sins, you [Dorian Gray] have not the courage to commit, Basil Hallward is an emblem of all those he hadn't the courage to commit.

Book of the Week

Emma by Jane Austen
Recommended by Will Palmer

Emma is a novel written by Jane Austen, which tells a tale of the English gentry in the early 19th century.

This review has the purpose of enticing you into reading the book and yes, I am aware that my very first sentence will entice only a very specific group of people. Therefore, it being my job to entice every reader of this review, I shall now persuade you as to why Emma is one of the greatest comedy of manners novels of all time.

Book of the Week

Ark by Stephen Baxter
Recommended by Ryan Ko

In Ark, an inescapable, global flood wipes over this earth, taking entire civilisations and people with it. Billions of people begin migrating towards higher ground, climate refugees known as ‘eye-dees’, sparking global chaos as governments battle for mountain territory and begin to look to alternatives for their future.

LaRei is a community of the world’s richest - together, they create three separate ‘Arks’, each a self-sustaining vessel in itself designed to carry the people inhabiting it to another destination. Ark One has one mission: to carry eighty ‘Candidates’ to another planet outside of this solar system so that they can continue the human race there.