Angus Donald is the author of the Outlaw Chronicles, a bestselling series of 12 novels featuring the legendary hero Robin Hood, and set in the 12th and 13th centuries. He is also the author of the Blood trilogy, a 17th-century series featuring unusual but brilliant artillery officer, Holcroft Blood, son of the notorious Crown Jewels thief Colonel Thomas Blood. He has penned five Viking Fire Born novels, beginning with The Last Berserker, and he is now writing the Mongol Knight trilogy, a series based in the extraordinary true story of the Englishman who fought for Genghis Khan. Templar Traitor, Book 1 of the series, is out now; Book 2, Templar Assassin will be out in August 2026.

Angus was born in China in 1965 and educated at Marlborough College and Edinburgh University. He has worked as a fruit-picker in Greece, a waiter in New York and as an anthropologist studying magic and witchcraft in Indonesia. For fifteen years, he worked as a journalist in Hong Kong, India, Afghanistan and London for a number of national and international newspapers. He left The Times in 2008 after six years on the staff to write novels full-time. He lives in rural Kent with his wife, Mary, and his two young children.