Family secrets

The Lost Café Schindler by Meriel Schindler (Hodder & Stoughton, 432 pages, £20)

In this moving memoir, Meriel Schindler unpicks truth from fantasy in the tangle of stories related to her by an immensely unreliable narrator: her father, Kurt. Centred on the family business – the titular Café Schindler in Innsbruck – the story that emerges offers a deeply personal perspective on the often traumatic experiences of Austria’s Jews in the early 20th century.