Meet the Indiana Jones of vegetables and join him on his quest to save our heritage produce.Named BBC Radio 4's The Food Programme "Book of the Year"2023 GardenComm Media Awards Silver Laurel Medal of AchievementShortlisted for the Garden Media Guild’s Garden Book of the Year Award 2023Longlisted for The Art of Eating Prize 2023"[This book] is a clar...

Across the world, chefs, farmers, plant scientists and backyard growers are doing something extraordinary: creating new generations of fruit, vegetables and cereals, all bred specifically to flourish locally, taste delicious, and contribute to our food future.In The Accidental Seed Heroes, Adam Alexander dons his seed detective homburg to meet these twenty-first century seed heroes, who are not only championing traditional varieties but also breeding delic...

After helping to build the Eastland Insurance company for 17 years, Lanthus Trilby is retrenched, without warning, to make way for ‘younger, brighter minds’. Feeling angry and betrayed, the passive actuary wants to let his (former) boss feel his rage. His initial plans of keying his boss’ car quickly escalate well beyond merely blowing it up. Lanthus is going to take down the entire company. But his plan needs a team with special skills. The hacker, the daredevil, the explosives expert and...

It's not the secret that kills. It's the one hiding it.Detective Dave Malatsi is dealing with his own problems when he gets called to a remote lodge in the Natal mountains where a twenty-five-year school reunion has gone horribly wrong. Steve Carlton's body was discovered floating the pool, stabbed twelve times.As Malatsi investigates the murder, things become more and more tense for the guests now confined to the lodge. Everyone has a motive. Sixteen guest...

***All They Do Is Win (The Story of the NBA's Newest Dynasty): The Golden State Warriors***is a new book written by sports enthusiast, Adam Alexander. The book follows the 2018 NBA title run of the Golden State Warriors, following their history from the late 1980s to the present day. It tells the story of the "Run-T.M.C." years with Tim Hardaway, Mitch Richmond, and Chris Mullin, along with the Chris Webber/Latrell Sprewell 1994 playoff run, and the lean years of the 1990s and early 2000s....

Dis die stil mense waarvoor mens versigtig moet wees.Lanthus se wêreld het sopas tot ‘n einde gekom. Afgelê na sewentien jaar by een maatskappy. Sy huislewe is ‘n ramp. Sy oordonderende vrou en twee tieners sien hom skaars raak. Lanthus is moeg daarvan om onsigbaar te wees. Hy het sy beste jare opgeoffer, net om eenkant toe gegooi te word en plek te maak vir jonger, knapper aktuarisse wat nie die helfte so briljant soos hy is nie. Vir die eerste keer is La...

Have you ever wondered how peas, kale, asparagus, beans, squash, and corn have ended up on our plates? Well, Adam Alexander has.Adam Alexander is The Seed Detective. His passion for vegetables was ignited when he tasted an unusual sweet pepper with a fiery heart while on a filmmaking project in Ukraine. Smitten by its flavor, Adam began to seek out local growers of endangered heritage and heirloom varieties in a mission to bring home seeds to grow, share, and return so that he coul...

A global chase. An international fugitive. And hundreds of millions of dollars. He’d give it all up to see his kids just one more time.He got his revenge but he had to disappear from everyone, including his kids. To get them back, Lanthus Trilby has to come out of hiding, and that’s exactly what Detective Muller was counting on.Lanthus Trilby desperately wants to make contact with his kids, but the relentless Detective Muller has never given up his...

Welcome, you unfortunate soul, to the book your overly optimistic self-help guru warned you about - "How to Navigate the Fall." It's the one they love to hate, full of brutal truths and minus the fairytale fluff. This book won't tell you that everything will be alright because, let's face it, sometimes it won't be. And that's okay. Ever been smacked down by life? Of course, you have. We all have. We're the unsuspecting folks caught in the whirlwind when life turns the fan on high speed. Wh...

When you retrench an average middle-aged employee, don’t expect average revenge.When Lanthus Trilby is suddenly retrenched his world seems bleak. With an overbearing wife and two teenage children who believe him to be the most boring person in the world (he can’t even blame them since was in insurance), Lanthus is tired of being invisible. He gave seventeen years of his life only to be tossed aside to make place for younger, sexier, designer suit wearing k...

*2025 NYC Big Book Award WINNER in the category of Historical Fiction*At the peak of Rome's might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages.In A.D. 197, Emperor Septimius Severus led one of the largest invasion forces in Rome’s history against the Parthian Empire.Among the men of thirty-three legions is Lucius Metellus Anguis, a young man from an ancient Equestrian family. Against the wishes of his...

At the peak of Rome's might a dragon is born among eagles, an heir to a line both blessed and cursed by the Gods for ages.Lucius Metellus Anguis is a young warrior who is inspired by the deeds of his glorious ancestors and burdened by the knowledge that he must raise his family name from the ashes of the past. Having achieved a measure of success in the Emperor's legions in North Africa, Lucius is recalled to Rome where he finds himself surrounded by enemies, cast ...