Nominated for the Booker Prize 2019Shortlisted for the 2019 Women’s Prize for FictionKorede is bitter. How could she not be? Her sister, Ayoola, is many things: the favorite child, the beautiful one, possibly sociopathic. And now Ayoola's third boyfriend in a row is dead. Korede's practicality is the sisters' saving grace. She knows the best solutions for cleaning blood, the trunk of her car is big enough for a body, and she keeps Ayoola from posting pictures of her dinner t...

If Why Shoot the Teacher, Never Sleep Three in a Bed, and The Night We Stole the Mountie’s Car made you smile, chuckle, and laugh out loud, then here (as the man said) is just the book for you!Yes, Max is back! And Braithwaite fans, along with anyone who reads for the warm companionship of a good laugh and some delightful insight, need look no further.Here is Max’s Book of Books – the wit and wisdom of a forty-year career that has won the author hu...

Going home isn't easy and almost always emotionally disruptive as famous playwright Hugh Windmar realizes when he returns to his hometown of Saskatoon. There he re-acquaints with family, people almost strangers to him now; more importantly, his own past rears its ugly head as Hugh meets with the woman he abandoned during his rise to fame. Max Braithwaite's All The Way Home so clearly portrays the discomfort of revisiting the past it sends readers into an unexpecte...

This audio serves as helpful study guide for those doing the mechanical test for general license in Jamaica. Although specifically written for this purpose it can serve as a help internationally for any that want to expand their knowledge.

The house in Suffolk has three bedrooms, a walled garden, and a pantry that locks from the outside.Cass married Owen six weeks ago and moved in with two suitcases. She expected his quiet charm. She did not expect his twenty-eight-year-old daughter to live at home, cook his meals, and manage his medication without being asked.Ivy is polite. Ivy is meticulous. Ivy never leaves.And when Owen goes away, Cass opens the pantry and finds a calendar for every year going bac...

The body of a young man is discovered by his father hanging from a tree outside a shearing shed on the outskirts of the old silver mining village of Denison in the Central West of New South Wales. His fingers have been removed, and his body disembowelled. The sergeant of the nearby town, Rutherglen, is also the father of Detective Inspector Jonathon 'Tank' Dodge from the Southern Police Station in Sydney. The body is found on the property owned by Tank's grandparents and managed by Tank's ...

Herbert Brewer’s Dirty Little Secret is the first in a series of savagely funny, social-adventure novels calculated to appeal to the readership that has made Douglas Adams, John Kennedy Toole, Terry Pratchett and Tim Dorsey so successful.When the fictional nation of Amsarnie becomes reluctantly involved in the politics of a foreign war, Prime Minister Dereck Cartright is appalled to discover that his country’s armed forces only really exist as an expenditure statis...

When his girlfriend throws him out during the pandemic, Bambi has to go to his Uncle's house in lock-down Lagos. He arrives during a blackout, and is surprised to find his Aunty Bidemi sitting in a candlelit room with another woman. They both claim to be the mother of the baby boy, fast asleep in his crib.At night Bambi is kept awake by the baby's cries, and during the days he is disturbed by a cockerel that stalks the garden. There is sand in the rice. A blood stain appears on the...

In Lusty Winter, Braithwaite portrays the contemporary world as a place of luxury, ambition, and endless potential where survival is difficult and often impossible. The person trying to survive the lusty winter of his life is George Wilson, a 65-year-old who is hale, hearty, and full of hate for modern society. Escaping from city life and his ambitious celebrity wife, Wilson sets himself up in an isolated cabin in northern Ontario. However, the detached lifestyle he seeks is conti...

Across an amazing sweep of the critical areas of business regulation - from contract, intellectual property and corporations law, to trade, telecommunications, labour standards, drugs, food, transport and environment - this book confronts the question of how the regulation of business has shifted from national to global institutions. Based on interviews with 500 international leaders in business and government, this book examines the role played by global institutions such as the WTO, the ...

The Bernese Oberland is renowned for its spectacular mountain scenery, which earned it the nickname 'Brigitte Bardot Country'. The ride from Interlaken to Bern is the main thoroughfare of the Swiss Alps, with views out over the snow-capped peaks. When you get to town, reward yourself by wandering around the medieval Old Town and take in the sights of the Zytglogge clock tower.Including Old City of Bern, Zytglogge Tower, Bern Cathedral, Bear Park (Bärengraben), Historical Museum of ...

In The Financial Courts, Jo Braithwaite analyses thirty years of cases involving the global derivatives markets, exploring the nature of these legal disputes and assessing their impact on financial markets and on commercial law more broadly. Weaving together this substantial body of cases with theoretical insights drawn from the growing literature on the internationalisation of financial law, Braithwaite offers readers a detailed and highly original contribution to the debate about the rol...