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

Buying drinks and rebuffing sexual advances ... the literary biographer reveals all about the process of writing two acclaimed lives

As the explorer Livingstone’s body is carried homewards in Petina Gappah’s fictionalised account, his African servants reveal the man behind the myth

A young woman working in a Northern Irish chip shop is the heroine of this hilarious exploration of the legacy of the Troubles

From ‘Autobahn’ to ‘Trans-Europe Express’ … how the electronic pioneers helped shape a new Germany and changed the history of pop

From the blitz to Brighton’s end-of-the-pier shows, this is a dreamlike story of England’s suburban underbelly

A repulsive alien organism is unleashed on Earth in Richard Stanley’s scary, hokey – and often funny – extravaganza

Does the future lie in charity shops? A study of the global secondhand market carries a green message

Nico Holonics is in resoundingly offbeat form as as a stunted child in a solo show that delights in making its audience squirm

A enigmatic chancer worms his way into a world of privilege and power in this pithy satirical novel

Rape is as much a weapon of war as a Kalashnikov ... the acclaimed foreign correspondent has written a harrowing but vital book

Hadley Freeman’s gripping family biography of persecution and escape offers lessons for our own time

A remarkable murder mystery set in horror and squalor

A reliably committed lead performance ignites a mostly enjoyable, often timely, take on the HG Wells story that falls apart in the final act