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Rothea Beukes kan haar man staan as dit moet. Maar sy vind spoedig uit dat sy nie ’n kans staan teen die groot Duitser, Dieter Richter, nie – want sy het nie die geld en die mag van die Richters om teen hulle te kan veg nie. En die prys wat sy gaan verloor? Klein Albie Richter, seun van haar suster Barbara en haar man Ernest, wat in ’n botsing gesterf het. Die Richters eis voogdyskap oor die klein seuntjie en verwag sy moet hom sonder meer aan hulle oorhandig. Toe gryp Albie in. Hy sit so ’n keel op toe Dieter hom kom haal, dat hy verplig is om Rothea na die familieplaas, Schloss Hoffnung, saam te nooi. Sy het geen ander keuse nie. Sy moet ter wille van Albie gaan. En dit is goed ook, want daar is allerhande geheimsinnige onderstrominge op die plaas aan die gang. Daar is Ilse Bauer wat op Dieter verlief is en Rothea wil wegkry; daar is mevrou Olga Richter wat haar ongasvry en vyandig behandel; maar daar is ook Carl Richter wat haar vriendelik ontvang en behandel. Die ergste is egter die aanslae op Albie se lewe. Wie sal so ’n klein kindjie se dood verlang? En waarom? Rothea het haar vermoedens en sy wens Dieter het haar nooit hierheen laat kom nie. Sy wil wegvlug, want sy het hier verlief geraak en vrees vir haar eie lewe, maar sy kan nie. Sy is verantwoordelik vir Albie se veiligheid. Daarom bly daar vir haar net een ding oor: sy moet die aanvaller aan die kaak stel. Bitter bloeisels is ’n spannende liefdesverhaal vol intrige.

The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah CadburyIn 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah Cadbury takes a journey into her own family history to uncover the rivalries that have driven 250 years of chocolate empire-building.Beginning with an account of John Cadbury, who founded the first Cadbury's coffee and chocolate shop in Birmingham in 1824, 'Chocolate Wars' goes on to chart the astonishing transformation of the company's fortunes under his grandson George. But while the Cadbury dynasty is the fulcrum of the narrative, this is also the story of their Quaker rivals, the Frys and Rowntrees, and their European competitors, the Nestles, Suchards and Lindts. These rivalries drove the formation of the huge chocolate conglomorates that still straddle the corporate world today, and have first call on our collective sweet tooth.This is narrative history at its most absorbing, peopled by wonderfully colourful characters – the true story of the chocolate pioneers, the visions and ideals that inspired them and the mouth-watering concoctions they created.

One perfect family.Too many perfect lies.Small-town girl Mabel Dagmar is out of her depth. At her elite East Coast college, unversed in the nuances of casual privilege, she is ignored, especially by her dormmate, Ev Winslow, whose pedigree disguises a chequered past. Then out of nowhere Ev softens and Mabel finds herself entering the world of the elite, with an invitation to the Winslows’ private estate, Winloch, that very summer.Days spent swimming in watery coves evaporate into nights at glamorous cocktail parties. And as the formality melts away with one Winslow brother in particular, Mabel is left to think that her summer has all but become a golden dream.But when Mabel looks a little closer at the Winslows, probing beneath their glossy exterior, what she uncovers in their past is almost as shocking as what she finds out about their present. Beneath the beauty is a rotten core.And not everyone is quite as they seem…

It all started when we found the body. Then nothing was ever the same.The Dry meets Stand by Me and True Detective in this stunningly written tale of the darkness at the heart of a small mid-Western town and the four kids who uncover it.In the heatwave summer of 1971, four kids find a body by a lake and set out to solve a murder. But they dig too deep and ask too many questions.Larson is a town reeling in the wake of the Vietnam draft, where the unrelenting heat ruins the harvest, and the people teeter on the edge of ruin.As tension and paranoia run rife, rumours become fact, violence becomes reflex. The unrest allows the dark elements of the close-knit farming community to rise and take control.And John, Jenny, Gloria and Rudy are about to discover that sometimes secrets are best left uncovered…