The Sword Unbound: Cork fantasy author Gareth Hanrahan releases second instalment of trilogy
Gareth Hanrahan pictured in Cork with two of his previous books. Picture: Dan Linehan
The new epic fantasy series by Cork author Gareth Hanrahan is a love letter to genre fiction. The Lands of the First Born trilogy plays all of fantasy’s greatest hits: there are epic battles, evil wizards and talking swords. Fans of The Lord of the Rings, Game of Thrones and The Witcher will want to inhale it all in a single sitting.
But Hanrahan, who has just published the saga’s second volume, The Sword Unbound, says there’s more to the novels than blade-swinging derring-do (though there is plenty of that, for sure). Told from the perspective of a middle-aged warrior whose dragon-slaying prime is behind him, the story doubles as a moving meditation on growing older.
