About Elizabeth Chadwick

Elizabeth Chadwick is one of Britain's foremost historical novelists and has been called by the Historical Novel Society "the best writer of medieval fiction currently around". She is published internationally, and her work has been translated into 16 languages. She is renowned for her extensive research into the medieval period and particularly so in the area of the Marshal and Bigod families. Her novels about the thirteenth-century magnate William Marshal, The Greatest Knight (2005) and The Scarlet Lion (2006), have brought her international acclaim.