Gareth Hanrahan

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Gareth Hanrahan, also published as Gareth Ryder-Hanrahan, is an Irish novelist and game designer from Cork, the city that inspired Guerdon in his Black Iron Legacy books. He trained as a computer programmer, then took what was meant to be a three-month break to write and has been writing for many years since. He has published many role-playing games and supplements, including The Laundry RPG, Adventures in Middle-earth and The Dracula Dossier, and has worked full time for Pelgrane Press and as line developer for the Laundry Files RPG. His first novel, The Gutter Prayer, was published by Orbit in 2019. He later wrote the Lands of the Firstborn trilogy, The Sword Defiant (2023), The Sword Unbound (2024) and The Sword Triumphant (2025). He lives in Ireland.

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Books

• The Gutter Prayer (2019) · The Black Iron Legacy Core Canon
• The Shadow Saint (2020) · The Black Iron Legacy Core Canon
• The Broken God (2021) · The Black Iron Legacy Core Canon

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• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 3 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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