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Gillian Polack in Conversation with Elizabeth Chadwick and Robyn Cadwallader

23 October 2021 | 8:15 pm - 9:15 pm

Elizabeth Chadwick’s much awarded novels chronicle the power and glory of England’s Medieval kings, queens and nobles such as William Marshal, Henry I and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Robyn Cadwallader focuses on the quiet inner lives of women in the Middle Ages. Gillian Polack asks why Elizabeth and Robyn are drawn to this era, and whether there are any hidden pockets of medieval history still to be explored.

Gillian Polack

Dr Gillian Polack is a writer, editor, researcher and teacher. She recently won the 2020 Ditmar for best novel and was awarded the A Bertram Chandler Award for lifetime achievement . She has PhDs in Creative Writing and in Medieval History. Her research includes how writers think of history and how they use it in their fiction (published as History adn Fiction: Their Research, Worlds and Stories, 2016), and how other aspects of culture are encoded into novels. Her work on demystifying the Middle Ages can be found in The Middle Ages Unlocked: A Guide to Life in Medieval England, 1050-1300. For more information:

Elizabeth Chadwick

Elizabeth Chadwick is a multi award winning million selling author of over 25 historical novels, including New York Times best-seller The Greatest Knight. Her work has been translated into over 18 languages. Her novel The Scarlet Lion was nominated by HNS founder Richard Lee as one of his books of the decade. Elizabeth is a member of the Royal Historical Society and occasionally gives talks on the academic circuit, but her true passion are the stories behind the stories and what they say about then and now. For more information:

Robyn Cadwallader

Robyn is an editor and writer and has published poems, prize-winning short stories and reviews, a poetry collection, i painted unafraid and a non-fiction book based on her PhD thesis about virginity and female agency in the Middle Ages. Her first novel, The Anchoress (2015, Fourth Estate Australia, Faber & Faber, UK, Farrer, Straus & Giroux, US, and Gallimard France) was received with critical acclaim: It was awarded a Canberra Critics’ Circle Award for fiction and the ACT Book of the Year People’s Choice Award, was shortlisted for the ABIA Awards (Debut Fiction), the Adelaide Festival Literary Awards, and longlisted for the ABIA Awards (Literary Fiction and New Author). In response to the government’s policies on asylum-seekers, she edited a book of essays by prominent lawyers and activists, We Are Better Than This (ATF Press, 2015). Her second novel, Book of Colours, was released by HarperCollins in April, 2018. She lives in the country outside Canberra with a lovely man, two dogs, two alpacas, four chooks and a host of birdlife.

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