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Internationally bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho,
Pip Williams, joins us at The Phee Broadway Theatre to discuss her new novel, The German Ward.
Pip will be in conversation with Mel Fulton
About the Author :
Since its publication in 2020, The Dictionary of Lost Words has become an award-winning, global (and New York Times) bestseller.
Pip’s second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, was published in 2023 and was an instant bestseller. In 2024, it won the Australian Book Industry Awards General Fiction Book of the Year and was Dymocks’ number-one book in its Top 101. Both novels were also recognised in ABC Radio National’s Top 100 Books of the 21st Century.
The German Ward, continues her exploration of love, art, and history, bringing to life a vivid World War I story of forbidden love and artistic discovery behind the lines in France. Pip’s books have been published around the world and translated into more than 30 languages.
About the Book : The German Ward
A tale of love between enemies behind the lines of WW1 and the Australian artist who captures their secret.
France, 1915. An English nurse and German doctor fall in love. He is a prisoner of war; she has never cared for rules. Their love is visceral and urgent, forbidden and doomed, and it would have gone unrecorded if not for a series of drawings found more than a century later.
At first the drawings seem insignificant, but the woman who finds them glimpses moments of intimacy and can’t look away. The images become part of a puzzle she wants to solve: who were the lovers, what became of them, and what story of war was the artist trying to tell?
In this luminous tale of hope in the midst of darkness, Pip Williams expands the world of her bestselling novels, The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. Sensual and sophisticated, The German Ward is a book about desire and shows one of Australia’s most significant writers reaching the height of her skills.
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TUESday OCTOBER 6, 2026
6 30PM - 8 00PM INCLUDING SIGNING
The Phee Broadway Theatre
Mechanics Lane, Castlemaine, 3450
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TICKETS $30
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