The Unworthy'Jacobsen can make almost anything catch the light . . . One of Norway's greatest writers on the working class' Times Literary Supplement They're a gang without a name Olav, Carl, Roar, Jan and Vidar teenage boys growing up in a working class area of Oslo under the shadow of Nazi occupation. They live in poverty but earn a crust by creatively swindling their fellow citizens, falsifying documents and stealing like magpies. And they don't shy away from

John Lewis-Stempel explores each in turn

but being loved by him can have a cost

and a certain image springs to mind: a nameless

Hunger and Thirst is a compelling and chilling tale of loneliness and female friendship

he declared a long-held wish to see the Scottish Highlands and this unlikely couple soon set out

drank and wore

and stammeringly shy

'This book is my love letter to the UK

'BALDACCI IS STILL PEERLESS' - THE SUNDAY TIMES

years later she meets Wentworth once more

The 27th Kydd adventure from veteran writer Julian Stockwin

one for each day