Book of the week
Anansi’s Gold
The man who swindled the world
Yepoka Yeebo Bloomsbury, £20
Most email users will have received a message in their inbox at some point from someone claiming to work for an African leader and offering a share of their client’s lost fortune in exchange for help with legal fees. The scam briefly became so common it had its own name – it became known tells the story of one very similar, high-profile fraud that ran for nearly 20 years from the early 1970s.
