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Elizabeth Chadwick

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The United Kingdom

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Literature & Fiction, History

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Dorothy Dunnett, Roberta Gellis, Anya Seton

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Best selling historical novelist Elizabeth Chadwick won a Betty Trask Award for her first novel The Wild Hunt. She has been shortlisted for the UK's mainstream Best Romantic Novel of the Year Award 4 times and longlisted twice. Her novel The Scarlet Lion about the great William Marshal and his wife Isabelle de Clare, has been selected by Richard Lee, founder of the Historical Novel Society as one of the landmark historical novels of the last ten years.
When not at her desk, she can be found taking long walks with the dog, baking cakes, reading books (of course!) exploring ruins, listening to various brands of rock and metal music, and occasionally slaving over a steaming cauldron with re-enactment society Regia Anglorum. ...more

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Average rating: 4.16 · 86,978 ratings · 6,428 reviews · 46 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Summer Queen (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 10,811 ratings — published 2013 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Greatest Knight (William Marshal, #2) 4.14 avg rating — 9,530 ratings — published 2005 — 48 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Scarlet Lion (William Marshal, #3) 4.33 avg rating — 6,332 ratings — published 2006 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lady of the English 4.05 avg rating — 6,459 ratings — published 2011 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Winter Crown (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #2) 4.23 avg rating — 6,133 ratings — published 2014 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Autumn Throne (Eleanor of Aquitaine, #3) 4.35 avg rating — 5,085 ratings — published 2016 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Defy a King (William Marshal, #5; Bigod, #2) 4.17 avg rating — 4,451 ratings — published 2010 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place Beyond Courage (William Marshal, #1) 4.17 avg rating — 4,455 ratings — published 2007 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Time of Singing (William Marshal, #4; Bigod, #1) 4.14 avg rating — 3,728 ratings — published 2008 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows and Strongholds (FitzWarin #1) 4.19 avg rating — 3,244 ratings — published 2004 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Hello all, It’s a while since I posted a newsletter – time has just raced past and there are never enough hours in the day, but I’m doing a quick catch up now on the run. WRITING THE ROYAL REBEL, about Joan of Kent (called Jeanette in the novel) […]

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Series by Elizabeth Chadwick

William Marshal (5 books)
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Eleanor of Aquitaine (3 books)
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“Your enemies have neither the proof nor the backbone to stand against you, but say something often enough in vulnerable ears and incredulity turns to belief.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Greatest Knight

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“Grief was just the moment before you tied the thread and began the next one”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, Lady of the English

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“Deeds may speak more compellingly than words,but I believe words have their place too. A man who has both is gifted indeed.”
― Elizabeth Chadwick, The Greatest Knight

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