Brávellir: Vikings battle for the soul of the North
It is not an original idea to base an entire historical novel around one battle. Bernard Cornwell, the godfather of…
The Loki Sword is now available on Audible
My latest novel, The Loki Sword (Fire Born 3), is finally available to listen to as an Audible file. And…
The good gangster, an autistic artilleryman and the berserker from Bali: interview with Angus Donald
Fellow novelist Baptiste Pinson Wu interviewed me on his YouTube channel this week. We discussed my bizarre international upbringing, my…
The over-enthusiastic etymologist, #4: egg on, tinker, sausage
I’ve always loved words and, as a schoolboy, I desperately wanted to become an etymologist. Life intervened, of course, but…
King of the North (Fire Born 4): the Bjarki and Tor saga continues . . .
I have just sent the first draft of King of the North (Fire Born 4) off to the publisher. And…
The Last Berserker (Fire Born 1) is 99p!
The first book in my new(-ish) and surprisingly successful Viking series – The Last Berserker – is now on sale…
What I’m writing about this week, #14: Viking human sacrifice
Sometimes you don’t realise what a book is really about until you have almost finished writing it. King of the…
The Last Berserker (Fire Born 1): what exactly is a berserker anyway?
Over the Christmas break, when I was talking to lots of people about what I do for a living and…
Merry Christmas everybody – I’m done with 2022
It’s been a helluva year in the news: the world coming out of Covid, Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the threat…
The over-enthusiastic etymologist, #3: Fulsome, Rum and Hooker
I’ve always loved words and, as a schoolboy, I desperately wanted to become an etymologist. I had a collection of…