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The Bookbinder of Jericho

The Bookbinder of Jericho

by Pip Williams
Paperback
Publication Date: 26/03/2024

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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, ambitious and dreams of studying at Oxford University, but for most of her life she has been told her job is to bind the books, not read them. Maude, meanwhile, wants nothing more than what she has. She is extraordinary but vulnerable. Peggy needs to watch over her.

When refugees arrive from the devastated cities of Belgium, it sends ripples through the community and through the sisters' lives. Peggy begins to see the possibility of another future where she can use her intellect and not just her hands, but as war and illness reshape her world, it is love, and the responsibility that comes with it, that threaten to hold her back.

The Bookbinder of Jericho is a story about knowledge – who makes it, who can access it, and what is lost when it is withheld. In this beautiful companion to the international bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words, Pip Williams explores another little-known slice of history seen through women's eyes. Intelligent, thoughtful and rich with unforgettable characters, this is the novel of 2023.

ISBN:
9781922992925
9781922992925
Category:
Historical Fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
26-03-2024
Publisher:
Affirm Press
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
448
Dimensions (mm):
198x128mm
Weight:
0.48kg
Pip Williams

Pip Williams is co-author of the book Time Bomb: Work, Rest and Play in Australia Today (NewSouth Press, 2012).

As a social scientist, she has also published many academic papers, book chapters and reports on the subject of a good life and these have been the subject of interviews and discussions in all major newspapers and on national and regional radio.

Pip has published two travel articles based on the journey described in One Italian Summer (InDaily,16 June 2015; The Australian, 30 June 2012).

She writes book reviews that are produced for Radio Northern Beaches and published in InDaily, and she has published flash fiction online. Pip is very proud of a poem she published in Dolly Magazine when she was 15 years old.

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