Charles Chadwick (novelist)
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Charles McKenzie Chadwick CBE (31 July 1932 – 16 June 2025) was an English novelist.
Chadwick's father was Trevor Chadwick.[1] Chadwick was born in Swanage.[2] He worked as a civil servant from the early 1970s. He held a position as a British Council officer in Nigeria in 1972 and worked in Kenya, Brazil, Canada, and Poland, where he was the Council's Director.[3][4]
Chadwick retired from the civil service in 1992. He wrote several novels, all of which were originally rejected by publishers.
In 2004, Chadwick was offered a major Faber and Faber publishing deal for his novel It's All Right Now, which was written over a period of thirty years. In its initial edition, the book was 679 pages and covered the life of an ordinary middle-aged English man from his thirties into his sixties (tagline: "A written life, an unwritten life", as quoted from last page). The book was published in May 2005 by Faber & Faber in the UK and HarperCollins in the U.S.
Chadwick was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 1984 Birthday Honours,[5] and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1992 New Year Honours,[6] for services to the British Council whilst he was a British Council officer.
Chadwick died on 16 June 2025 aged 92;[7] his death being announced on 2 July.[2]
