The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz (Penguin Books)

THE TIMES 100 BEST BOOKS FOR SUMMER Pre-order the inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to stay together and survive the Holocaust, for anyone captivated żeby The Cut Out Girl, The Choice and The Tattooist of Auschwitz.

'An extraordinary tale' The Times (Best Books of 2019) 'Everyone thinks, tomorrow it will be my turn. Daily, hourly, death is before our eyes...' Gustav and Fritz Kleinmann are father and son in an ordinary Austrian Jewish family when the Nazis come for them.

Sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939 they survive three years of murderous brutality. Then Gustav is ordered to Auschwitz. Fritz, desperate not to lose his beloved father, insists he must go too.

And though he is told it means certain death, he won't back down. So it is that father and son together board a train bound for the most hellish place on Earth... This is the astonishing true story of horror, love and impossible survival.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Extraordinary' -Observer 'The story is both immersive and extraordinary. Deeply moving and brimming with humanity' - Guardian 'An emotionally devastating story of courage - and survival' - i Paper 'We should all read this shattering book about the Holocaust.

An astonishing story of the unbreakable bond between a father and a son' - Daily Mail 'A deeply humane account and a visceral depiction of everyday life in the camps.