Elizabeth Chadwick's novel THE SCARLET LION, selected by Historical Novel Society founder Richard Lee as one of his 'Ten Landmark Historical Novels of the Last Decade', is available to buy in digital format in the US from the new Apple iBookstore platform - the iTunes for the e-book. Published by Sourcebooks in the US, the iBook edition of THE SCARLET LION can be purchased through the iBookstore for $9.99 by all iPad owners. It is the first title by a Blake Friedmann author to be offered in iBook format.

Elizabeth Chadwick is the author of 17 novels and has been translated into 18 languages. THE LORDS OF THE WHITE CASTLE (2002) won the WordWeaving Award of Excellence, and her novels regularly feature in UK bestseller lists. Her latest novel TO DEFY A KING, a story of huge emotional power set against the road to Magna Carta, will be published by Sphere (Little Brown) in the UK on 10 May 2010, and later by Blanvalet in Germany and La Esfera de los Libros in Spain.

To watch a trailer of TO DEFY A KING please click here and for THE SCARLET LION here.

Praise for Elizabeth Chadwick:

'I rank Elizabeth Chadwick with such historical novelist stars as Dorothy Dunnett and Anya Seton. Read THE SCARLET LION and see why.' 
--Sharon Kay Penman, New York Times bestselling author of DEVIL'S BROOD

'Elizabeth Chadwick knows exactly how to write convincing and compelling historical fiction.' 
--Marina Oliver

'An author who makes history come gloriously alive.'
-- The Times