Angus Donald Books in Order
Browse Angus Donald books in order, with series guides, short summaries, and simple advice on where to start with Robin Hood, Vikings, Arthur, and more.
Last updated: June 8, 2026
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Publication Order
27 books
Outlaw
by Angus Donald
2009
Caught stealing in Nottingham, young Alan Dale flees into Sherwood and falls in with Robin Hood’s brutal outlaw band. Robin becomes his protector and teacher, but the same man could kill him if he steps out of line.
Holy Warrior
by Angus Donald
2010
In 1190, Robin Hood and Alan Dale ride east with Richard the Lionheart on the Third Crusade. As the army grinds toward the Holy Land, a hidden enemy inside Robin’s own camp is waiting to strike.
King's Man
by Angus Donald
2011
When Richard the Lionheart is captured on his journey home, Robin Hood and Alan Dale are drawn into a desperate rescue. Their mission carries them across a dangerous Europe of prisons, politics, and hired killers.
Warlord
by Angus Donald
2012
Richard is back in Normandy, waging hard war against Philip of France, and Robin fights at his side. Meanwhile Alan follows a personal trail of vengeance, hunting the man behind his father’s murder deep in enemy territory.
Grail Knight
by Angus Donald
2013
Alan’s home and family are under threat, and his wife is close to death. Robin leads him on a perilous hunt for the Holy Grail, with renegade Templars and old enemies closing in from every side.
The Betrayal of Father Tuck
by Angus Donald
2013
With Robin and his men away on crusade, Marie-Anne must hold Kirkton Castle against danger at home. Father Tuck is beside her, but the siege tests loyalty, nerve, and the thin line between faith and survival.
The Hostility of Hanno
by Angus Donald
2013
Wounded after battle in the Holy Land, Alan Dale finds little peace in recovery. In the hospital at Acre he meets the fierce German soldier Hanno, and their hostile first encounter changes the series from there on.
The Rise of Robin Hood
by Angus Donald
2013
Before Alan Dale enters the story, young Robin Odo and Little John are still finding their feet in Sherwood. This short prequel follows their first bold robbery and the early making of the outlaw legend.
The Iron Castle
by Angus Donald
2014
In 1203, King John turns to Robin Hood as Normandy begins to collapse under French attack. Robin and Alan must help hold Château Gaillard, the great fortress that stands between England and total defeat.
The King's Assassin
by Angus Donald
2015
As King John squeezes England for money and power, rebellion gathers around Magna Carta. Robin and Alan are swept into civil war and a deadly plot that could bring the king, and the realm, crashing down.
The Death of Robin Hood
by Angus Donald
2016
England is at war again after Magna Carta, and French forces enter the fight as Robin and Alan choose where they stand. This final main volume turns the old legend of Robin’s last days into one more brutal campaign.
Bloods Game
by Angus Donald
2017
London, 1670. Gifted young Holcroft Blood enters the service of the Duke of Buckingham just as his father, Colonel Thomas Blood, drifts toward the infamous Crown Jewels plot. Court intrigue and family danger soon collide.
Blood's Revolution
by Angus Donald
2018
After years of covert work in Paris, Holcroft returns as a talented gunnery officer in a kingdom heading toward upheaval. Rebellion, a relentless French enemy, and the coming revolution force him to choose his side.
Blood's Campaign
by Angus Donald
2019
Holcroft Blood heads to Ireland with William’s army, ready to use his artillery against James II’s supporters. But war is only part of the story, because revenge and an old French foe are driving him just as hard.
Robin Hood and the Caliph's Gold
by Angus Donald
2020
Shipwrecked on Crete while returning from the Third Crusade, Robin and his men are stranded far from home. Robin answers disaster with an audacious heist, but pirates, local tyrants, and enemy soldiers close in fast.
Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones
by Angus Donald
2020
On the journey home from the Holy Land, Robin Hood and Alan Dale are caught in the bloody politics of Burgundy. Alan’s attempt to rescue a young woman leads him toward treachery, murder, and the sinister Castle of Bones.
The Last Berserker
by Angus Donald
2021
Bjarki Bloodhand and Tor Hildarsdottir travel south into Saxony hoping to join the legendary berserkers. As Karolus and the Franks press their Christian war into the North, both siblings are pulled into a larger struggle.
The Loki Sword
by Angus Donald
2022
Bjarki, Tor, and their companions set out on a dangerous quest for a legendary blade once linked to Loki. The search carries them far from home into hostile lands, old myths, and a curse that may be all too real.
The Saxon Wolf
by Angus Donald
2022
Bjarki now carries the fearsome power of a berserker, but he dreads losing himself to it. Tor and the rebel leader Widukind push toward open war as Saxony fights back against Frankish rule.
Arthur's Bane
by Angus Donald
2023
In a fractured post-Roman Britain, young Arthur is trying to find his place among warring kingdoms. Saxon newcomers, old grudges, and the awakening of the dragon Cythraul make this first episode feel dangerous from the start.
Arthur's Escape
by Angus Donald
2023
The second episode pushes Arthur farther from safety as Britain grows more violent and unstable around him. On the run through a broken land, he has to learn quickly which loyalties will hold and which will snap.
King of the North
by Angus Donald
2023
A struggle for the northern crowns pulls Bjarki and his sister Tor onto opposite sides of a legendary war. Oaths, ambition, and family loyalty collide as both march toward a battle that could decide Scandinavia.
Arthur's Folly
by Angus Donald
2024
Arthur makes bold choices that could help unite a shattered island, or destroy what little he has built. Politics, family conflict, and the supernatural threat hanging over Britain all tighten in this fourth episode.
Arthur's Revenge
by Angus Donald
2024
Arthur tries to hit back in a Britain where every victory seems to invite fresh trouble. Rival kingdoms, Saxon pressure, and the shadow of the Wormkind keep turning private anger into something much larger.
Blood of the Bear
by Angus Donald
2024
In 781, Widukind wants Bjarki and Tor to join a new Saxon rising against Frankish rule. But Bjarki’s private life has already started another war, and a dark spell threatens to drive the old berserker into madness.
Robin Hood and the Heretic Prince
by Angus Donald
2025
A botched robbery drives Robin Hood and Alan Dale out of Sherwood and into southern France. There they are swept into the Albigensian Crusade and forced to defend people condemned as heretics by the Church.
Templar Traitor
by Angus Donald
2025
In 1241, Austrian knights capture a Mongol scouting party and make a startling discovery, one of the riders is an English former Templar. Under interrogation, Robert of Hadlow must explain how he came to serve the Mongols.
Where should I start?
If you want the core Robin Hood story: Outlaw → Holy Warrior → King's Man → Warlord
If you want the full Sherwood backstory: The Rise of Robin Hood → Outlaw → Holy Warrior → The Hostility of Hanno
If you want 17th-century intrigue: Bloods Game → Blood's Revolution → Blood's Campaign
If you want Vikings and berserkers: The Last Berserker → The Saxon Wolf → The Loki Sword → King of the North
If you want Arthur or a fresh new medieval series: Arthur's Bane → Arthur's Escape → Arthur's Revenge, or start with Templar Traitor
Author bio
Angus Donald was born in Beijing in 1965, the son of the British diplomat Alan Donald. Because of his father’s overseas postings, he grew up with one foot in Britain and the other in Asia, and some of his clearest early memories are of Hong Kong in the 1970s before school in England. That slightly unsettled, always-looking-outward childhood helps explain why so many of his novels move easily across borders, battlefields, and cultures.
He grew up around maps, headlines, and stories from far away.
At Marlborough College he became a serious, hungry reader. After a loose, wandering spell in Greece, where he picked fruit and lived cheaply, he eventually got himself to the University of Edinburgh to study social anthropology. Fieldwork in Indonesia and Bali exposed him to ritual, folklore, belief, and the way history can still feel alive in ordinary daily life. You can see traces of that later in his fiction, where religion, superstition, and power are never just background scenery.
Before he became a novelist, Donald had a long and varied working life. He taught English in Hong Kong, worked on magazines and newspapers there, then returned to London and edited and wrote for national papers before heading back out to Asia as a journalist. His reporting took him to India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, and after 9/11 he went into Afghanistan as a freelancer. Years in newsrooms gave him pace, discipline, and a sharp eye for telling detail. They also gave him a strong feel for how people talk and how fear, ambition, and loyalty play out when events turn dangerous.
Then he changed course.
Closing in on forty, and tired of shaping other people’s copy, he decided to try the thing he had wanted for years. He got up at four in the morning to write before going to work, and kept at it for about five years. The result was Outlaw, published in 2009, a hard, grounded reworking of Robin Hood told through the eyes of Alan Dale. It struck a chord quickly. Readers liked the speed, the grit, and the fact that Donald’s Robin is not a shiny folk hero but a dangerous gang leader who can be charismatic and frightening in the same breath. Later Outlaw Chronicles books such as Holy Warrior, Grail Knight, and The King’s Assassin kept widening that world.
He did not stop with Sherwood. In Bloods Game and the other Holcroft Blood novels, he moved into Restoration and Stuart Britain, following a brilliant, socially awkward gunner through ciphers, court politics, rebellion, and war. In The Last Berserker and the Fire Born books, he went deeper into the Dark Ages, writing about pagan fighters, Charlemagne’s wars, and the thin line between courage and madness. More recently, Templar Traitor opened a new series built around an Englishman riding with the Mongols.
Across all these books, certain things keep returning. Donald likes capable outsiders, morally messy heroes, old legends stripped back to their harder edges, and moments when private loyalties collide with public violence. Even when he is writing about kings, crusades, or berserkers, the stories usually stay close to the people in the mud trying to survive them.
He now lives in Kent with his wife, Mary, and their two children, in a medieval farmhouse. It sounds almost too perfect for a historical novelist, but it suits the arc of his life: after years spent chasing stories across the world, he ended up making a long-term home out of telling his own.
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