Anansi's Gold : The man who swindled the world. WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024. by Yepoka Yeebo

Anansi's Gold : The man who swindled the world. WINNER OF THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024. by Yepoka YeeboWinner of the Jhalak Prize & Plutarch Award A New York Times, New Yorker, Washington Post, Newsweek, TIME Book of the Year 2023Fabulously entertaining Daily Telegraph Perfect for fans of Frank Abignale Jr.s Catch Me If You Can Publishers WeeklyThe astounding, never before told story of how an ingenious Ghanaian con artist ran one of the 20th centurys longest and most audacious frauds. When Ghana declared independence from Britain in 1957, it

arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers

Dragged away from her family for the murder of a faerie

collecting poems that have inspired musical settings by one hundred English poets

as well as thought-provoking opinion pieces about audiences

Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident

We didn’t always live here

On 7 April 1986

from the author of Half A World Away

To my left was the Space Station

and 101 Stickers

followed by a further seven along with a group of uncollected poems to the third edition of Poems (2015)

The only clue Hana has to unlocking his past is the one thing he clung on to through the fire – a copy of The Histories by Herodotus