Robin Hood Books in Order

Robert Muchamore’s Robin Hood series takes the legend out of medieval Sherwood and drops it into a struggling, post‑industrial country in the 2020s. Locksley is no longer a green village but a battered city where car plants have closed, jobs have vanished and corruption seeps into every corner of public life.

At the heart of it all is a very modern outlaw. Robin is twelve when his dad is framed for robbery after speaking out against local graft. Small, quick and strangely good with both a bow and a laptop, he ends up living rough in the vast, lawless Sherwood Forest that sprawls between towns. There he falls in with Marion Maid, Will Scarlock, Little John and a shifting cast of bandits, refugees and runaways.

The early books focus on survival and revenge. Guy Gisborne, a smooth crime boss with friends inside the police, treats Locksley as his personal fiefdom. Sheriff Marjorie Kovacevic keeps the city’s official machinery working for the rich and well connected. Robin’s response is to hit them where it hurts hijacking armoured vans, hacking bank accounts, leaking embarrassing files and streaming his exploits to a growing online audience.

Each episode stands alone as an adventure piracy on the river, paintball attacks on trophy hunters, jet‑ski chases through coastal swamps, rescue missions for trafficked people or kidnapped dogs but there is a clear arc. Over time the conflict widens from local scams to national politics, with elections, smear campaigns and new laws that threaten anyone sheltering in Sherwood Castle.

Muchamore leans into the contrast between outlaw romance and hard reality. Sherwood Forest is both a wild playground and a place full of biker gangs, extremist cults and armed militias. Robin and Marion swap hooded cloaks for hoodies and burner phones, but the underlying questions are the same ones the old ballads played with who owns the wealth, who sets the rules and what happens when a teenager decides to fight back.

Readers who know his CHERUB books will recognise the fast pacing, snappy dialogue and willingness to let characters argue, swear and make bad decisions. The Robin Hood stories add a layer of social media and streaming culture, with Robin becoming an unwilling influencer whose every stunt can be replayed, remixed or used against him.

If you enjoy grounded adventure with big set pieces, messy politics and a hero who would rather prank a billionaire than pose as one, this is the Muchamore series to start with.