Shauna Lawless

About Shauna Lawless

Shauna Lawless is a fantasy author from County Down. Her debut novel The Children of Gods and Fighting Men (2022), the first in her Gael Song historical fantasy trilogy, was nominated for a British Fantasy Award. Lawless won a Chrysalis Award at the 2025 ESFS Awards.

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Upcoming Titles

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  Tales of Fire and Freedom: Gael Song Stories March 2, 2027 View on Amazon: Tales of Fire and Freedom: Gael Song Stories

Earlier Books

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  Son of the Serpent September 10, 2026

  The thrilling second volume in Gael Song: Era II sees invaders mass on Irish soil, kings lose their crowns, and Ireland's immortals discover new magical powers. Winter 1169. Isolde arrives at the stronghold of the Descendants, her immortal kin. It soon becomes clear that Isolde is magically gifted, but as she learns to harness her abilities, visions of death and fire consume her. Heartbroken at parting from young warrior Cuan, and scarred by the destructive power of her enemies the Fomorians, Isolde struggles to find her place in the immortals' world.

  View on Amazon: Son of the Serpent
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  Daughter of the Otherworld September 11, 2025

  From the author of the Gael Song trilogy, an epic new historical fantasy set in the tumultuous, magical world of medieval Ireland during the time of the Norman invasion. Over a hundred years after she went missing, Isolde, born to the family of a famous Irish king and a powerful immortal, inexplicably reappears. Her mother's kin, the Descendants, are one of the two magical races of Ireland.

  View on Amazon: Daughter of the Otherworld
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  The Land of the Living and the Dead September 12, 2024

  With war on the horizon in medieval Ireland, everything is at stake for mortal and magical folk alike. The third volume in the critically acclaimed GAEL SONG historical fantasy series. A LoveReading Book of the Year! THE OLD WORLD WILL DIE IN FLAMES. Ireland, 1011 AD. The mortal kingdoms rise up against High King Brian Boru as they seek to wrest his crown from him. Yet the real struggle is between the two magical races of Ireland, the Fomorians and the Descendants, eternal enemies who both seek dominion over the mortal world.

  View on Amazon: The Land of the Living and the Dead
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  Dreams of Sorrow July 4, 2024 View on Amazon: Dreams of Sorrow
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  Dreams of Fire March 14, 2024 View on Amazon: Dreams of Fire
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  The Words of Kings and Prophets September 14, 2023 View on Amazon: The Words of Kings and Prophets
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  The Children of Gods and Fighting Men September 1, 2022 View on Amazon: The Children of Gods and Fighting Men

More New Books Coming Up

• A Deadly Cost by Charles Todd · Mar 2, 2027
• Abdication by Jeff VanderMeer · Mar 2, 2027
• Absolute Batman, Vol. 4: The Straw Man by Scott Snyder · Mar 2, 2027
• By Breath by P. C. Cast · Mar 2, 2027
• Cardinal Rule by Liz Tomforde · Mar 2, 2027
• Joyfully Ever After by Sara Raasch · Mar 2, 2027
• None of This Is Real by Sara Walters · Mar 2, 2027
• Strange Harm by Ainslie Hogarth · Mar 2, 2027
• The Last Days of Vic & Coco by Taylor Jenkins Reid · Mar 2, 2027
• Through the Gathering Storm by Catherine Cowles · Mar 2, 2027

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