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Pip Williams on The Bookbinder of Jericho

Sat 13 May 2023

Pip Williams + Frances Whiting

The Edge Auditorium, slq

Main Festival

BWF068

#Performances

#About the event

Duration: 60 minutes

From the acclaimed author of The Dictionary of Lost Words comes The Bookbinder of Jericho, a melange of scrupulous historical detail and the richly imagined inner lives of women. Discussing her novel with Frances Whiting, Williams explores her attraction to historical narratives and why little-known pockets of history exert such power over our imaginations.

#Artists

Pip Williams

Pip Williams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia with her family and an assortment of animals. She has spent most of her working life as a social researcher, studying what keeps us well and what helps us thrive, and she is the author of One Italian Summer, a memoir of her family's travels in search of the good life, which was published by Affirm Press to wide acclaim. Her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives, was published in 2020 and became an international bestseller. The Bookbinder of Jericho is her second novel, a companion to The Dictionary of Lost Words, and again combines her talent for historical research and beautiful storytelling.

Frances Whiting

Frances Whiting is one of Australia’s best known writers. Her debut novel Walking on Trampolines released to critical and popular acclaim in 2013 is a best seller in Australia the United States and Canada. In 2015 Walking on Trampolines was translated into Italian, German, Spanish, Slovenian, and Czechoslovakian. Frances’s second book The Best Kind of Beautiful released by Pan Macmillan in 2019, is a best seller and is currently in treatment for a television series with Escapade Media in Sydney. A senior feature writer for Queensland's premier weekend magazine Q Weekend in the Courier Mail, Frances is also a much loved columnist for the Sunday Mail and other Sunday newspapers around Australia with her weekly column now in its 24th year.