House of Glass by Hadley Freeman review – a captivating family memoir
From the glamour of Parisian fashion and fine art to dark collaboration and the Holocaust ... an engaging, skilful uncovering of family secrets that asks questions relevant today
Tacky’s Revolt review: Britain, Jamaica, slavery and an early fight for freedom
Vincent Brown’s military history sheds precious light on a brutally suppressed revolt which paved the road to abolition
Winter in Sokcho review – broodingly atmospheric
The tension builds in Elisa Shua Dusapin’s first novel after a mysterious guest arrives at a dead-end South Korean hotel
Parisian Lives by Deidre Bair review – deliciously indiscreet about Beckett and De Beauvoir
Buying drinks and rebuffing sexual advances ... the literary biographer reveals all about the process of writing two acclaimed lives
Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah review – a journey across colonial Africa
As the explorer Livingstone’s body is carried homewards in Petina Gappah’s fictionalised account, his African servants reveal the man behind the myth
Big Girl, Small Town by Michelle Gallen review – dark, deep-fried laughs
A young woman working in a Northern Irish chip shop is the heroine of this hilarious exploration of the legacy of the Troubles
Kraftwerk by Uwe Schütte review – a band that saw the future
From ‘Autobahn’ to ‘Trans-Europe Express’ … how the electronic pioneers helped shape a new Germany and changed the history of pop
Here We Are by Graham Swift review – a tale of magic, love and loss
From the blitz to Brighton’s end-of-the-pier shows, this is a dreamlike story of England’s suburban underbelly
Color Out of Space review – Nicolas Cage goes cosmic in freaky sci-fi horror
A repulsive alien organism is unleashed on Earth in Richard Stanley’s scary, hokey – and often funny – extravaganza
Secondhand by Adam Minter review – the new global garage sale
Does the future lie in charity shops? A study of the global secondhand market carries a green message
The Tin Drum review – Günter Grass’s spectacular study of German trauma
Nico Holonics is in resoundingly offbeat form as as a stunted child in a solo show that delights in making its audience squirm
Theft by Luke Brown review – black comedy of sexualised class war
A enigmatic chancer worms his way into a world of privilege and power in this pithy satirical novel
Our Bodies, Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb review – groundbreaking on women and war
Rape is as much a weapon of war as a Kalashnikov ... the acclaimed foreign correspondent has written a harrowing but vital book
House of Glass by Hadley Freeman review – flight and fight of a Jewish family
Hadley Freeman’s gripping family biography of persecution and escape offers lessons for our own time
Hurricane Season by Fernanda Melchor review – intense and inventive
A remarkable murder mystery set in horror and squalor