Gideon Defoe


Gideon Defoe is an English novelist of The Pirates!, a historical fiction fantasy comedy book series about a group of pirates on their adventures. He also wrote the screenplay for The Pirates! Band of Misfits which is an Aardman Animations stop-motion animated feature film based on The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists, the first book in The Pirates! book series. According to his 2020 book An Atlas of Extinct Countries, Defoe also does film development work with Locksmith Animation and StudioCanal and is developing a TV sitcom with BBC Studios.

''The Pirates!'' book series

  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Scientists
  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Whaling
  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Communists
  • The Pirates! in an Adventure with Napoleon
  • ''The Pirates! in an Adventure with the Romantics''

    Other books

  • How Animals Have Sex
  • Elite Dangerous: Docking is Difficult
  • ''An Atlas of Extinct Countries''

    Awards