Pip Williams Pip Williams i(13941541 works by)
Born: Established: London,
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England,
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United Kingdom (UK),
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Western Europe, Europe,
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Gender: Female
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'Pip Williams was born in London and grew up in Sydney. She has spent most of her working life as a social researcher and is co-author of the book Time Bomb: Work, Rest and Play in Australia Today (NewSouth Press, 2012). Her creative non-fiction has been published in InDaily and The Australian and produced for Radio Northern Beaches, and she is very proud of a poem she published in Dolly magazine when she was fifteen years old.' (Source : Affirm Press website

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y separately published work icon The Bookbinder of Jericho Mulgrave : Affirm Press , 2023 24937612 2023 single work novel historical fiction

'In 1914, when the war draws the young men of Britain away to fight, it is the women who must keep the nation running. Two of those women are Peggy and Maude, twin sisters who work in the bindery at Oxford University Press in Jericho. Peggy is intelligent, ambitious and dreams of going to Oxford University, but for most of her life she has been told her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has. She is extraordinary but vulnerable. Peggy needs to watch over her.

'When refugees arrive from the devastated cities of Belgium, it sends ripples through the community and through the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can use her intellect and not just her hands, but as war and illness reshape her world, it is love, and the responsibility that comes with it, that threaten to hold her back.

'In this beautiful companion to the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams explores another little-known slice of history seen through women's eyes. Evocative, subversive and rich with unforgettable characters, The Bookbinder of Jericho is a story about knowledge who gets to make it, who gets to access it, and what is lost when it is withheld.'  (Publication summary)

2024 shortlisted Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2024 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2024 shortlisted Indie Awards Fiction
2023 shortlisted Dymocks Book of the Year Book of the Year
2023 longlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize Adult
y separately published work icon The Dictionary of Lost Words South Melbourne : Affirm Press , 2020 18575183 2020 single work novel historical fiction

'Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the ‘Scriptorium’, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme’s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word ‘bondmaid’ flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.

'Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women’s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.' (Publication summary) 

2021 winner Indie Awards Book of the Year
2022 longlisted International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award
2021 winner Booksellers Choice Award BookPeople Book of the Year Adult Fiction Book of the Year
2021 winner New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards People's Choice Award
2021 shortlisted New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
2021 shortlisted The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction
2021 winner MUD Literary Prize
2021 winner Australian Book Industry Awards (ABIA) Australian General Fiction Book of the Year
2021 winner Indie Awards Debut Fiction
2020 shortlisted Dymocks Book of the Year
2020 longlisted HNSA Historical Novel Prize
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