Non-Fiction
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| One Italian Summer | 2017 | Buy |
Standalone Novels
| Title | Published | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|
| The Dictionary of Lost Words | 2020 | Buy |
| The Bookbinder of Jericho / The Bookbinder | 2023 | Buy |
Pip Williams is an Australian author who grew up in London before moving to Adelaide, South Australia. Her debut non-fiction book, One Italian Summer (2017), is a personal account of a year she spent living in a small Italian village with her family.
She gained wide recognition with The Dictionary of Lost Words (2020), a historical novel inspired by the real-life making of the Oxford English Dictionary. The story follows a young girl named Esme who grows up in the Scriptorium and starts saving the words that the dictionary’s editors leave out. The novel became an international bestseller and was published in more than thirty countries.
Her second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho (2023), is also set in Oxford and takes place during World War I. It follows a young woman who works at a university press bindery and discovers that the books she binds contain information the authorities want to suppress.