SCARRED LIONS

175pp., paperback, First SA Edition, Human & Rousseau, Cape Town, 2025

ISBN: 9780798185233

First published in 2011 in the UK. Also available in Afrikaans as Leeus met letsels.

Buyisiwe has grown up living with his mother in London. One day she tells him he is being sent to live with the father he has never met on a game reserve in South Africa.

Teen and children's book author Fanie Viljoen lives in Bloemfontein. His teen novel Breinbliksem won Gold in the Sanlam Prize for Youth Literature in 2005. His other teen novels include Dreamers, Krag, Offers vir die vlieë, Betower and Afkop.