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Know the Author - Sam Angus

Sam Angus

Born in Italy and grew up in France, Samantha Angus is a bestselling and award-winning author of historical adventure novels for children. Her novels reflect some of the bleakest moments of British and Colonial history. Being a lady with a knack for getting into trouble for various reasons, one for keeping a dog in her college room, you are in no wonder to expect nothing but adventure stories from her that are sure to enthrall children. She went on to read English at Trinity College, Cambridge and Central St Martins to study fashion. Later on she taught A Level English Literature and then became a full time writer. She lives near London with her 5 children, horses and a West Highland Terrier.

Her book Soldier Dog was longlisted in CILIP Carnegie Medal 2013, Captain in 2015 and The House on Hummingbird Island for 2017. She won or been shortlisted for many local and national awards like the North East Book Award, The Sussex Coast Amazing Book Award, the East Lothian Libraries’ Lennox Author Award, the James Reckitt Children’s Book Award, the Hillingdon Book of the Year, and the Bath and Somerset Centurion Award, amongst others, the Cheshire Book Award. It is said that some of the incidents mentioned in her first novel, Soldier Dog are taken from the lives of  two dogs named Airedale Jack, a British messenger dog and Satan, a French messenger dog. Sam Angus did a thorough research, especially in the library of the Imperial War Museum.

Haven’t you noticed that the story books on happy childhood adventures or pet stories, are mostly written by those who love or have pets or had happy childhood adventures? Sam Angus is one such author with so much vigour and empathy in her like the authors we discussed earlier like Sarah Lean and Beatrix Potter. Coincidentlly, a few of her book titles even reminds me of the titles by Sarah Lean’s. Click here to see the list of books authored by Sarah Lean.

Other books by Sam Angus: 
  • Soldier Dog
  • Captain
  • A Horse Called Hero
  • The House on Hummingbird Island
  • School for Skylarks


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