King of the North (Fire Born 4): cover reveal
It is with great pleasure and no little pride that I reveal the cover of King of the North, my…
Free Book Friday: win a signed copy of The Last Berserker
It’s been a while so I thought I would do a give-away today for Free Book Friday. I have a…
Outlaw (Outlaw Chronicles 1) now just £1.99
The first book I ever wrote, from way back in 2009, is now on sale on Amazon for just £1.99…
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…
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…
Pantser division: two ways to set about writing a historical fiction novel
Someone asked the other day how I set about writing a novel, and since I have written a fair number…
Have yourself a very Viking Christmas
What’s that emerging from Santa’s sack? Is it a huge, hairy, axe-wielding, 8th-century maniac? No? Would you like it to…
Go on, buy me a horn of foaming ale!
The life of a writer is always financially precarious but, recently, with inflation leaping upwards and the cost of living…
From Excalibur to lightsabers – the enduring magic of swords
The pen is mightier than the sword, they say. But try telling that to a Christian monk in a Dark…