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Anansi's Gold
The Man Who Swindled the World Yepoka Yeebo
The astounding, never-before-told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the twentiethcentury’s longest, most audacious frauds.
When Ghana declared its independence from Britain in 1957, it immediately became a target for home-grown opportunists determined to attain whatever assets colonialism hadn’t already stripped. A nationalist military coup ousted the new nation’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, then falsely accused him of seizing and hiding the country’s gold overseas.
Into the space stepped one of history’s most determined scammers, John Ackah BlayMiezah – a con man to rival the trickster god Anansi. BlayMiezah declared himself the custodian of an alleged Nkrumah trust fund worth millions. You, too, could claim a piece, if you help him rescue it – with a small investment. Over the 1970s and ’80s, he grew his scam to epic proportions, amassing hundreds of millions of pounds from thousands of marks.
In Anansi’s Gold, Yepoka Yeebo chases the ever-wilder trail of Blay-Miezah revealing the untold story of the grifter who beat the West at its own thieving game.
Yepoka Yeebo’s work has appeared in the Guardian, Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Bloomberg Businessweek, Quartz, among other publications. A graduate of Queen Mary College and Columbia University’s School of Journalism, she divides her time between Ghana, Bristol and New York. Anansi’s Goldis her first book.
03 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781635574739 / £20.00
EXPORT TPB / 9781526666680 / £14.99
EBOOK / 9781526667045 / £14.99
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ANZ Pub Date 28 November 2023
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Code of Conduct
Why We Need to Fix Parliament Chris Bryant
An MP’s guide to an enduring political issue: politicians breaking the rules and expecting to get away with it.
The extraordinary turmoil we have seen in British politics in the last few years has set records. No wonder people are asking whether ‘parliamentary standards’ is a contradiction in terms.
MP Chris Bryant has been in the thick of the battle over standards in parliament. Cronyism, nepotism, conflicts of interest, misconduct and lying: politicians are engaging in these activities more frequently and more publicly than ever before. Parliament is on trial, just when democracy itself is facing a direct challenge from authoritarian regimes around the world. Yet the vast majority of MPs are diligent, assiduous and intent on changing the world for the better.
Code of Conduct will look at every angle of parliamentary conduct, charting the history of how we got here and suggesting ways in which we might fix the problem. This book arrives at the perfect time to help parliament get its house in order.
Chris Bryant is an acclaimed historian of Parliament and expert on parliamentary procedure. Having been MP for the Rhondda since 2001, he has since 2020 chaired the Committees on Standards and Privileges. His most recent book, The Glamour Boys, won the 2020 Parliamentary Book Award.
20 July 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526642554 / £20.00
EXPORT TPB / 9781526642530 / £14.99
EBOOK / 9781526642509 / £14.00
TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market
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ANZ Pub Date 03 October 2023
TRADE PAPERBACK / AUS $34.99 / NZ $38.99
17 August 2023
HARDBACK / 9781526663597 / £14.99
EBOOK / 9781526663580 / £10.49
TERRITORY: Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market
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ANZ Pub Date 28 November 2023
HARDBACK / AUS $29.99 / NZ $32.99
