Pip Williams

Pip Williams is the author of social research, essays, memoir and the occasional poem, but she is best known for her companion novels, The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. Since publication in 2020, The Dictionary of Lost Words has won several major book awards, was a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick, and became a New York Times bestseller. It has been adapted for stage, been optioned for a limited series and is being turned into a book concerto. Pip’s second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, was published in 2023 and was an instant bestseller. In 2024, it won the Australian Book Industry Awards General Fiction Book of the Year and was Dymocks’ number one book in its Top 101. In 2025, both novels were recognised in ABC Radio National’s Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.

Pip’s latest novel is The German Ward. At its heart it is a story of desire and forbidden love during a time of war. But it is also about art and memory, and the stories we tell – and often don’t tell – about the past. Pip’s books have been published around the world and translated into more than 30 languages.