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Angus Donald

Angus Donald is a British author of historical adventure fiction born in 1965. Educated at Marlborough College and the University of Edinburgh, he studied social anthropology and undertook fieldwork on magic and witchcraft in Indonesia. Before becoming a full-time novelist, he worked as a fruit-picker in Greece, a waiter in New York and a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and London. His reporting included the war in Afghanistan and the Battle of Tora Bora, experiences that contributed to the direct treatment of danger, violence and survival found in his fiction.

Donald is best known for the Outlaw Chronicles, which reinterpret Robin Hood as a ruthless medieval warlord and follow the minstrel and soldier Alan Dale through the reigns of Richard the Lionheart and King John. He has also written the Holcroft Blood trilogy, centred on a gifted seventeenth-century artillery officer; the Viking-era Fire Born series; and the Mongol Knight novels about an English warrior drawn into the campaigns of Genghis Khan. His books combine battles, political rivalry and outlaw adventure with recurring themes of loyalty, comradeship and survival in violent periods of historical change.

Periods and events

First Barons’ War Magna Carta Viking Age Scandinavia Albigensian Crusade Carolingian Empire Third Crusade Captivity and Ransom of Richard I Angevin Empire Medieval France Glorious Revolution Mongol Invasion of Central Europe Mongol Empire Arthurian Britain Restoration London

Series

Series by Angus Donald (5 series)

The Outlaw Chronicles in Order

by Angus Donald 14 books 4.4

The Outlaw Chronicles reimagine Robin Hood as Robert Odo, Earl of Locksley, a charismatic and violent criminal lord remembered by his lieutenant Alan Dale. The original novels carry Alan from his entry into the Sherwood band through the Third Crusade, Richard I’s wars, the loss of Normandy, Magna…

The Rise of Robin Hood

4.2

Outlaw

4.3

Holy Warrior

4.4

The Hostility of Hanno

4.2

Robin Hood and the Caliph’s Gold

4.5

Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones

4.3

The Betrayal of Father Tuck

4.1

King’s Man

4.5

Warlord

4.5

Grail Knight

4.5

The Iron Castle

4.5

Robin Hood and the Heretic Prince

4.6

The King’s Assassin

4.6

The Death of Robin Hood

4.7

Fire Born in Order

by Angus Donald 4 books 4.4

The Fire Born series follows Bjarki Bloodhand and Tor Hildarsdottir through the wars of the late eighth-century north. The Last Berserker and The Saxon Wolf place the siblings inside the resistance to Charlemagne’s conquest of pagan Saxony, where Bjarki’s bear spirit gives him extraordinary power at the risk…

The Last Berserker

4.4

The Saxon Wolf

4.5

King of the North

4.6

Blood of the Bear

4.6

Holcroft Blood in Order

by Angus Donald 3 books 4.4

The Holcroft Blood trilogy follows a mathematically gifted gunner through the political and military crises of Restoration Britain. Blood’s Game begins with his service to the Duke of Buckingham and his father Colonel Blood’s attempt to steal the Crown Jewels. Blood’s Revolution moves through Sedgemoor and the conspiracy…

Blood’s Game

4.3

Blood’s Revolution

4.5

Blood’s Campaign

4.5

The Mongol Knight in Order

by Angus Donald 2 books 4.4

The Mongol Knight trilogy fictionalises the unexplained Englishman captured among Mongol scouts near Vienna in 1241. Templar Traitor frames Robert of Hadlow’s story through an interrogation in which he must account for more than twenty years spent serving the empire created by Genghis Khan. Templar Assassin continues his…

Templar Traitor

4.4

Templar Assassin

Wormkind Chronicles in Order

by Angus Donald 1 book 4.4

The Wormkind Chronicles retell the rise of Arthur in a post-Roman Britain divided among competing kingdoms and threatened by Saxon migration. The Broken Kingdom introduces Arthur, Igraine, Morgan, Merlin and the warriors who will form the Round Table while political alliances determine who can claim the high kingship.…