The Latest Breaking News from Pip Williams

“Even my dental hygienist sent me something the other day to say they were all singing it at some wedding reception”: How a British boogie-rock band turned a minor John Fogerty hit into an all-time classic that kicked off the biggest gig in history

Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold

Louder · Nov 1, 2025

“We weren’t ready to go into the studio… we got the feeling the label didn’t care about us any more”: Despite an uneasy line-up change, a lawsuit and no idea about singles, the Moody Blues returned to superstardom with Long Distance Voyager

With help from an ex Yes member and a new engineer, 1981 release marked a significant update without a loss of their musical values. But is it a concept album?

Louder · Dec 29, 2024

Talented Mr Ripley and the Shiralee headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 season

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Happy Days and aged care musical Bloom also on next year’s STC program, which will the last from outgoing artistic director Kip Williams

The Guardian - AU · Sep 4, 2024

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

In The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams tells the stories of working-class women in World War I that are too often missing from the official historical archive.

ABC News · Apr 21, 2023

‘Making a book is an extraordinary thing’: Pip Williams on the invisible history of female bookbinders

The bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words shares the spark behind her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho – filling the ‘blank spaces’ around the women who worked at Oxford University Press

The Guardian - AU · Mar 27, 2023

Pip Williams shows how World War I transformed women's lives, in a new novel that captures the 'poetic materiality' of books

Pip Williams describes her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, as both follow-up and companion to her 2020 debut, The Dictionary of Lost Words.

The Conversation · Mar 26, 2023

Writers fest hits 10 years of quality

'To have them all at the one festival is pretty amazing'

Newcastle Herald · Mar 4, 2023

Writers festival rolls out first stars

Much-loved Australian writers Craig Silvey and Pip Williams, and debut authors Mawunyo Gbogbo, Andrew Quilty, and Amy Thunig, have been announced as the first of what will be 100 artists in the 10th Newcastle Writers Festival.

Newcastle Herald · Dec 10, 2022

Australian bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words set to become a television series

The Dictionary of Lost Words will be adapted for TV, with two Australian production houses acquiring screen rights for the novel.

The New Daily · Nov 15, 2022

Julia Gillard: one-woman play starring Play School’s Justine Clarke to debut in 2023

Sydney Theatre Company’s announcement of the work, written by Joanna Murray-Smith, aligns with 10-year anniversary of former PM’s misogyny speech

The Guardian - AU · Oct 6, 2022