Welcome to the Angus Donald website
Angus Donald is the bestselling author of The Outlaw Chronicles, a new series of books about the legendary hero Robin Hood. The first three books in the series, Outlaw (2009), Holy Warrior (2010) and King’s Man (2011) are published in the UK by Sphere, and Angus is now working on Warlord, the fourth book of the Chronicles, which will be released in the summer of 2012.
Read on for more information about the books, essays on the real historical background to the novels and Angus’s blog containing news about forthcoming books and events.
Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Justin Bieber to star in 100 billion-dollar movie of Robin Hood
OK, you got me. That is an outrageous lie. I was thinking the other day about a seminar I went to a few years ago when I worked at The Times when they were telling us how to write headlines for online articles and, basically, they said you should always put the names of stars in the title (and large sums of money). That way, claimed the experts, when people are browsing the net they will be attracted to your site by the double-whammy glamour of celebs and buckets of cash. Sorry, low trick, I know. But there is some justification in running these guys’ names in the headline: I quite often get asked who should play Robin Hood and Alan Dale if they ever (you never know, fingers crossed!) make a movie of one of my books.
It’s quite a tough one, actually. Who should be the heroes of the Outlaw Chronicles? I like Johnny Depp enormously, and Jude Law seems like a nice chap, too (I met him briefly before Christmas) and he’s a first-class actor. I don’t really know much about Justin Bieber, except that he’s insanely popular with the young ‘uns, although he seems a bit thick; actually, as dumb as a lump of cheddar – sorry, Beliebers, but there it is!
So who should it be? Who do you think should play Alan? And who would be a convincingly ruthless Robin Hood? Email me and let me know!
Other news
King’s Man will shortly be available as an Audio book, hooray! – and while the hardback is listed as unavailable on Amazon (some sort of glitch that they can’t seem to fix) I have copies of the book at home which I will sign, wrap-up and send to you at a very reasonable price, if you really want one. Contact me if you want a copy, and we’ll make some suitable arrangement.
Some bits of news for you
It’s going to be a rather eventful year for me, I think.
I’ve just heard that King’s Man is being published in the USA on 13 November 2012 – which seems like a long way in the future but I expect the time will pass quickly. Back in good old Blighty, King’s Man is coming out in paperback in July and the same month Warlord will be published in hardback. So three of my books are coming out in English in a year.
Added to that, the German version of Holy Warrior is due to come out in March 2012, and the Spanish version of King’s Man will also be published in that month.
In other domestic news, my wife is expecting our second child in mid-February.
That’s all for now. I’ll post more updates as I get them.
The paperback version of King’s Man
My publisher has just sent me this new cover for the paperback of King’s Man (Book 3 of the Outlaw Chronicles), which is coming out in July this year. I think it is brilliant – love to hear what you all think . . .
