An Evening with Pip Williams

An evening with Pip Williams who will discuss her brand new book, The German Ward in conversation with well known author Victoria Purman. Pip Williams' new 2026 book, The German Ward, is the love story of the year. 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, The German Ward shows one of Australia’s most significant writers reaching the height of her skills. Don’t miss your chance to celebrate the launch of Pip Williams’ highly anticipated new book—secure your spot and be part of an unforgettable literary evening! About the Author: Pip Williams is the author of social research, essays, memoir and the odd poem, but she is best known for her companion novels, The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho. Since its publication in 2020, The Dictionary of Lost Words has won a number of major Australian book awards, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the prestigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in the UK. In 2022, it was chosen for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club, and it became a New York Times bestseller. As well as being adapted for stage, The Dictionary of Lost Words is being turned into a book concerto and has been optioned for a limited series. 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. Pip’s books have been published around the world and translated into more than 30 languages.