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ABC Arts. Topic: Books. Williams loves the feeling of cracking open a new book. Australian author Pip Williams was researching the history of the Oxford University Press in when she came across a photo that ignited her curiosity. She was in the midst of writing her bestselling novel The Dictionary of Lost Words, which has sold more than , copies in Australia since it was published in and featured in Reese Witherspoon's Book Club.

The photograph was more than years old and showed a group of women standing among benches piled with paper, in Oxford University Press's bindery, the high-ceilinged room where the women assembled the books by hand: folding pages, gathering sections, and sewing text blocks. Williams searched the archive for more information about the bindery and the women who worked there — but found very little.

Williams did find something: rare footage of the women, known as "bindery girls", at work in Looking at one of these women in particular, Williams wondered if she ever stopped to read the books she had worked so hard to produce. This thought sparked the idea for her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho published in March , a "companion" novel to The Dictionary of Lost Words that begins as Europe descends into war in Williams' latest novel revolves around Sisters Peggy and Maude Jones, "bindery girls" who hail from Jericho, a historically working-class suburb of Oxford.

The two live on the canal in a narrowboat named Calliope, after one of the Muses from Greek mythology that they shared with their mother until her death three years earlier.