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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

Albigensian Crusade1209–1229 CE Angevin Empire1154–1214 CE Arthurian BritainLegendary setting, conventionally c. 5th–6th centuries CE Captivity and Ransom of Richard I1192–1194 Carolingian Empire768–888 CE First Barons’ War1215–1217 CE Glorious Revolution1688–1689 CE Magna Carta1215 CE Medieval France987–1498 CE Mongol Empire1206–1368 CE Mongol Invasion of Central Europe1241–1242 CE Restoration London1660–1685 CE Third Crusade1189–1192 CE Viking Age Scandinavia793–1066 CE

Historical fiction

Historical fiction series by Angus Donald (4 series)

The Outlaw Chronicles in Order

by Angus Donald 14 books 4.4(11,844)

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…

Fire Born in Order

by Angus Donald 4 books 4.4(6,880)

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…

Holcroft Blood in Order

by Angus Donald 3 books 4.4(1,874)

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…

The Mongol Knight in Order

by Angus Donald 2 books 4.4(319)

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…

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