Life's a Peach!: The secret life of an international fruit trader - Paperback

by Steve Askham (Author)

Extraordinary fruity business you didn't know that you NEED to know...
If you want to be absolutely fascinating round the dinner table, this is the book for you:

Why is a passion fruit called a passion fruit?

How come a pineapple is a berries? (Yes, you read that right!)

Which fruit hosts an insect which has the biggest penis to body size ratio in the entire animal kingdom?

Do you know how to force a rhubarb? Do you know why you'd want to?!

You see what your life is missing? Miss out no longer with Steve Askham's extraordinary tales of a life devoted to finding perfect fruits in the remotest corners of the world and organising for them to arrive, as if by magic, on your supermarket shelves, fresh, vibrant and perfect for you to just pick up as it it's high-speed globe-trotting journey is the most ordinary thing on Earth!

And then there is Him... A twist in the tale emerges from behind the fruit... Is Steve's entire life a front..?

I promise, you will never look at that avocado in quite the same way again...