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The Tea Merchant
By Jackie Phamotse
It is 2005, a time of silent anticipation
and hidden possibilities in the rugged
Cederberg mountains. Cameron Coal
is embroiled in a desperate fight to
save his family’s rooibos farm, which
is a hair’s breadth from bankruptcy,
while wrestling overwhelming grief
after his wife’s death and trying to
build a relationship with his blind
daughter. His father, John, might be
the family’s last hope to save their
farm from an enemy lurking in plain
sight. But in the shadows, Cameron’s
brother, Sole, harbours a secret that
Love and Fury could shatter their world.
By Margie Orford
Amid the chaos of a veld fire,
Love and Fury is the compelling
and intimate account of the Cameron’s gaze falls upon an enigmatic nurse, Luna Parks, who is new to their
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Orford. In this brave memoir, the guarded secrets could shatter the very foundation of their relationship.
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Fury shows why trauma in our
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