Future Harbours (Paperback)

Letters from President Mbeki

Thabo Mbeki

A collection of never-before-seen letters written by Thabo Mbeki surrounding Mbeki’s presidential years as well as reflections on the country and continent.

Future Harbours features a collection of letters both published and never-before-seen by former President of the Republic of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki. The letters cover a variety of themes and topics extending from Mbeki’s presidential years up to current day.

Mbeki has remained intricately linked to politics in South Africa and involved in governance and leadership across the African continent. His vision and that of his Foundation is to be a catalyst for the achievement of an African Renaissance. Together they seek to mobilise Africa’s progressive forces, support platforms for dialogue and reflection and to promote efforts for Africa’s political, social, economic, and cultural development.

This collection will feature themes on good governance and leadership across Africa; it will touch on the Mbeki administration’s controversial HIV/AIDS policy and its success in ‘putting South Africa back on the map’; and also reflect on South Africa’s foreign relations with countries like China, Russia and the United Kingdom.

Born and raised in Mbewuleni, Eastern Cape, South Africa, THABO MBEKI is a politician and son of Epainette and ANC stalwart Govan Mbeki. He served the Republic of South Africa as its second democratic president from June 1999 to September 2008. Mbeki continues to have an active hand in politics in the country and across the continent. The vision of the Thabo Mbeki Foundation is to be a catalyst for the achievement of an African Renaissance. It seeks to mobilise Africa’s progressive forces, support platforms for dialogue and reflection and to promote efforts for Africa’s political, social, economic, and cultural development.

The History of British Industry: The Birth of the Industrial Revolution 1700 – 1825 (eBook)

Peter Pugh

The History of British Industry is a magisterial new three-volume story of how the United Kingdom became the world’s first economic superpower – and how that crown slipped… 

Peter Pugh is a businessperson and business historian who has written more than 50 histories of companies from Rolls-Royce to Iceland. He is also the author of Introducing Thatcherism and Introducing Keynes. He lives by the sea in north Norfolk, and in Cambridge.

The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton (eBook)

And Other Singular Tales from the Victorian Press

Jeremy Clay

HOLIDAYMAKER FIGHTS OFF AFRICAN LION IN WELSH HOTEL ROOM MAN SWALLOWS MOUSE AND DIES WIFE DRIVEN MAD BY HUSBAND TICKLING FEET PALLBEARER KILLED BY COFFIN IN GRAVEYARD LIBERALS EAT DOG From the newspaper archives of the British Library, Jeremy Clay has unearthed the long-lost stories that enthralled and appalled Victorian Britain. Within these pages are the riotous farces and tragedies of nineteenth-century life, a time when life was hard, pleasures short-lived, and gloating over other people’s misfortune a thoroughly acceptable form of entertainment. Deliciously dreadful and deliriously funny, The Burglar Caught by a Skeleton will have you, one way or another, in tears.

Jeremy Clay is Features Editor at the Leicester Mercury. He is the author of two books, most recently Blokes with Balls (New Holland, 2005)