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One Italian Summer by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: Narratives/Memoir
Pip and Shannon dreamed of living the good life. They wanted to slow down, grow their own food, and spend more time with the people they love. But jobs and responsibilities got in the way: their chooks died, their fruit rotted, and Pip ended up depressed and in therapy. So they did the only reasonable t ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
The follow-up and companion to one of the most successful Australian novels ever, The Dictionary of Lost Words. What is lost when knowledge is withheld? 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 an ...Show more
The Bookbinder of Jericho by Pip Williams
$34.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
What is lost when knowledge is withheld? 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, ambit ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
In 1901, the word 'Bondmaid' was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. 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 ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words - A Novel by Pip Williams
$61.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
In this "delightful debut" (Newsweek) based on actual events, as a team of male scholars compiles the first Oxford English Dictionary, one of their daughters decides to collect the "objectionable" words they omit. "A marvelous fiction about the power of language to elevate or repress."--Geraldine Broo ...Show more
The Dictionary of Lost Words: Over a million copies sold by Pip Williams
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In 1901, the word bondmaid was discovered missing from the Oxford English Dictionary. This is the story of the girl who stole it. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, Esme spends her childhood in the Scriptorium, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of lexicographers are gathering words ...Show more
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