THE ARRIVAL OF THE DRAKONS

337pp., paperback, No Place, 2022

Fantasy coming-of-age novel for young adults.

Zade McDonald, a San bushman teenager with extraordinary powers living in the Okavango Delta in Botswana, has to choose between saving his mother or saving the universe.

Film and television director Francis Gerard was involved in developing the Origins Centre in Johannesburg. The Arrival of the Dragons is his debut novel. He lives in London.