Ian Britten-Hull

Welcome to my page. As you read this I am busy completing the trilogy and book 3, Legacy will be out later this year! - Here is a little bit about me! Ian Britten-Hull was born in London in the early sixties but grew up in the north of England. Ian returned to London to study dramatic art at Middlesex University in the early 1980’s. Whilst there, he trained to become an actor as well as studying stage management and theatre history. Upon graduating Ian worked as an actor for many theatre and TV companies, playing a wide range of parts from Shakespeare to Pantomime. Throughout his career Ian has also directed many theatre shows and devised shows of his own. During the pandemic lockdown, Ian along with his partner Anna-Maria Albici, conceived the idea of a show about pirates but, because of the restrictions, they made the original show as a one-hour video which they streamed over the internet. It was whilst making the video production that Ian became fascinated by the history of Anne Bonny, Mary Read and John Rackham. Researching the history and backgrounds of the three famous pirates, it became clear that the reasons people became pirates was more complex than one would imagine. A question that came to mind was, what if these three characters were alive today, how would their lives turn out with different opportunities and would they be so different from the lives they led 300 years ago? Having written so many plays for his own shows, Ian was compelled to try his hand at writing this trilogy, and thus the idea of The Buccaneers Legend novels.