Hy Brazil: Volume One of the trilogy The Elven Wars

TAKE a brash, social-climbing English lad, plonk him in Cork during the dangerous Elizabethan times, then whisk him away to a fantasy land of war and adventure.
That’s the premise for this excellent work of fantasy fiction, which gives an Irish spin on the JRR Tolkien zeitgeist and stands up very well to that writer’s masterpieces.