Escape into a book

Nadine O’Regan and Andrew Lynch pick out 20 perfect reads for relaxing with during long summer days

The Patient Assassin: A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge and the Raj

By Anita Anand

Sir Michael O’Dwyer’s friends described him as “Irish to the backbone”. As lieutenant governor of the Punjab, however, this romantic but blinkered Tipperary man became a symbol of British misrule in India. On ...