Bestselling author Pip Williams returns with The Bookbinder of Jericho, a companion novel to her hit The Dictionary of Lost Words

Williams loves the feeling of cracking open a new book. "The pleasure that we get from holding the physical book is quite intense, really, and something we long for," she says. (ABC Arts: Sia Duff)

Australian author Pip Williams was researching the history of the Oxford University Press in 2019 when she came across a photo that ignited her curiosity.

She was in the midst of writing her bestselling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words, which has sold more than 260,000 copies in Australia since it was published in 2020 and featured in Reese Witherspoon's Book Club.