BWF | Pip Williams - Redcliffe

Next date: Sunday, 11 October 2026 | 10:45 AM to 11:45 AM

Join us for an exclusive Beyond Brisbane event presented in partnership with Brisbane Writers Festival.

A forbidden love. A pioneering artist. A wartime secret. In the breathtaking new novel from globally bestselling author Pip Williams, a doomed WWI romance between a German prisoner of war and an English nurse is captured in the drawings of an Australian artist.

A century later, a researcher discovers the tantalising fragments of this lost narrative and sets out to piece them together. The author of The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho returns with this richly rendered tale of desire, knowledge and hope - The German Ward.

Free. Bookings required. For adults. Pip appears courtesy of Brisbane Writers Festival and Simon & Schuster's Affirm Press and will sign copies of her book before and after the event. Book sales courtesy of QBD The Bookshop North Lakes. Arrive 10:15 AM for a 10:45 AM start. Light refreshments provided.

About Pip

Pip Willams was born in London, grew up in Sydney, and now lives in the Adelaide Hills with her family and an assortment of animals.

She has spent most of her working life as a social researcher, studying what keeps us well and what helps us thrive, and she is the author of One Italian Summer, a memoir of her family’s travels in search of the good life, which was published by Affirm Press to wide acclaim.

Her first novel, The Dictionary of Lost Words, based on her original research in the Oxford English Dictionary archives, was published in 2020 and became an international bestseller. A companion title, the award-winning The Bookbinder of Jericho published in 2024.