The Outlaw Chronicles – in chronological order
Some people have been asking me about the order of the Robin Hood and Alan Dale novels and ebook short stories, and where the Caliph’s Gold and Castle of Bones (my latest) fit into the timeline. So here’s the definitive list!
This short story, only available as an ebook, is about Robin Hood and Little John struggling as novice outlaws in Sherwood Forest.
1188 Outlaw
The novel that kicked off the whole series. Alan Dale is caught stealing a pie and, fleeing from the law, joins Robin Hood’s notorious gang in Sherwood.
1190 Holy Warrior
In this novel, Robin Hood and Alan Dale embark on the Third Crusade with Richard the Lionheart. But is one of Robin’s men trying to murder him?
July 1191 The Hostility of Hanno
An ebook short story about how Alan Dale and Hanno, the Bavarian man-at-arms, meet while recovering from battle wounds in a hospital in Acre.
October 1191 Robin Hood and the Caliph’s Gold
Full-length novel available as paperback and ebook: Robin Hood plans an audacious heist in the Mediterranean on the way home from Third Crusade.
May 1192 Robin Hood and the Castle of Bones
Novel available as an eBook and paperback: The Sherwood gang find themselves in Burgundy on the way home from the Third Crusade.
September 1192 The Betrayal of Father Tuck
An ebook short story: Marie-Anne, Countess of Locksley, is besieged by the evil sheriff of Nottinghamshire Sir Ralph Murdac at Kirkton Castle.
September 1192 King’s Man
A novel in which Alan Dale goes to Germany to rescue Richard the Lionheart, who has been captured on the way home from the Crusade.
1194 Warlord
Alan Dale is attempting in this novel to find the man who ordered his father’s death, while the war against the French king rages in Normandy.
1200 Grail Knight
In this full-length novel, Robin Hood and Alan Dale journey to the far south of France in search of the fabled Cup of Christ.
1203 The Iron Castle
Novel: Robin Hood and Alan Dale must defend Europe’s strongest castle, Chateau Gaillard, against the might of the French monarch Philip Augustus.
1215 The King’s Assassin
Full-length novel: Robin Hood and his loyal knight Sir Alan Dale must bring King John to the table at Runnymede, and force him to accept Magna Carta.
1216 The Death of Robin Hood
Can Robin Hood pull off his greatest trick of all and cheat the Grim Reaper in this last, and quite possibly best, novel of the series?
The answer to the question posed above about Robin Hood’s mortality is, obviously, no. The clue is in the name of the final book. But that doesn’t have to be the end for our two heroes. If the sales of Castle of Bones are decent – ie enough to make several months of work and the cost of designing a cover worthwhile – I might just write another two Outlaw Chronicles. These would take place during the Albigensian Crusade and would sit in the series between The Iron Castle and The King’s Assassin. No promises, mind. But if the people all vote for more with their wallets . . .
Wow! I thought I had them all and only have three! Time to fill in the gap’s! Thanks for posting.
My pleasure! Hope you enjoy the whole set.
Please carry on writing these fab novels, I am mid Caliphs Gold, and frankly more of the same is wonderful news.
Thanks Andy! I’m writing the next one (Robin Hood and the Caliph’s Gold) right now. Should be done in a couple of months.
Thoroughly enjoying the Hood series and looking forward to the next Blood book
Thanks Gerald! You might have to wait a bit for the next Blood, as I have no plans at present to write another one (but never say never). But I am working on another Robin Hood story (RH and the Castle of Bones) which will be available later this summer. And I have one or two other book ideas up my sleeve. Watch this space! Best, Angus
I need to secure the last 3 books.
I need to secure the last 3 books.
You know you can get them on Amazon, right, Rita? All are available there. Happy reading!
I would love to know if you read the Hornblower books when you were growing up, as I did, or Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe and/or The Last Kingdom series over the last 40 years. I’m also curious to know if you have ever had any conversations with Mr. Cornwell. I have treasured every experience I’ve had reading your respective outstanding works of historical fiction
Hi James, I didn’t read the Hornblower books growing up – but I liked the TV series with Ioan Gruffyd. I preferred the Patrick O’Brian novels of 19th-century seafaring. I did read – or devour – the Sharpe books when I was younger. Actually, it was Bernard Cornwell who inspired me to become a writer of historical fiction. I loved his Warrior trilogy about Arthur. His finest work, I think. I have met him, too, a couple of times at event. We’ve been on several histfic panels together and he is always interesting if sometimes a little brusque with his fans when they ask stupid questions. I get the feeling that he is a little bored with the whole histfic scene. But he has been an inspiration to a whole generation of writers. And he is a great man, I think.