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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 and respected writers. As national senior feature writer for News Magazines, she has won many journalism awards, including the Clarions Outstanding Contribution to Journalism prize in 2023. Frances has a national column in News Limited weekend magazines, and a weekly column which - at 28 years - is Australia's longest running Sunday column. She has written two best sellers, Walking on Trampolines and The Best Kind of Beautiful, as well as two collections of her much loved columns, Oh To Be a Marching Girl, and That's a Home Run Tiger.