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“We weren’t ready to go into the studio… we got the feeling the label didn’t care about us any more”: Despite an uneasy line-up change, a lawsuit and no idea about singles, the Moody Blues returned to superstardom with Long Distance Voyager

With help from an ex Yes member and a new engineer, 1981 release marked a significant update without a loss of their musical values. But is it a concept album?

Louder

Talented Mr Ripley and the Shiralee headline Sydney Theatre Company’s 2025 season

Picnic at Hanging Rock, Happy Days and aged care musical Bloom also on next year’s STC program, which will the last from outgoing artistic director Kip Williams

The Guardian - AU

What was Canberra reading in 2024? Our most borrowed library books

What do Bonnie Garmus, Prince Harry and Jane Harper all have in common?

The Canberra Times

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“Certain people might think that – the type of person that wears only denim, has a lot of tattoos and doesn’t wash”: meet the man who ‘ruined’ Status Quo

Andy Bown has played keyboards with Status Quo for 50 years and has been with them through some tough times. But some fans still won’t forgive him for ‘ruining’ the band

Louder

A journey of discovery and identity formation: The Dictionary of Lost Words makes its wonderful stage debut

The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme as she navigates the patriarchal world of Victorian England. While her father and colleagues construct the Oxford English Dictionary, Esme begins to form her own dictionary – particularly the words spoken by women and the working class who have been excluded.

The Conversation

The Dictionary of Lost Words review – stage adaptation of bestseller finds power in the silences

Pip Williams’ 2020 novel was all about words – but on stage, it could do with a few less

The Guardian - AU

Bestselling author Pip Williams returns with The Bookbinder of Jericho, a companion novel to her hit The Dictionary of Lost Words

In The Bookbinder of Jericho, Pip Williams tells the stories of working-class women in World War I that are too often missing from the official historical archive.

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‘Making a book is an extraordinary thing’: Pip Williams on the invisible history of female bookbinders

The bestselling author of The Dictionary of Lost Words shares the spark behind her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho – filling the ‘blank spaces’ around the women who worked at Oxford University Press

The Guardian - AU

Pip Williams shows how World War I transformed women's lives, in a new novel that captures the 'poetic materiality' of books

Pip Williams describes her new novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho, as both follow-up and companion to her 2020 debut, The Dictionary of Lost Words.

The Conversation

Writers fest hits 10 years of quality

'To have them all at the one festival is pretty amazing'

Newcastle Herald

Writers festival rolls out first stars

Much-loved Australian writers Craig Silvey and Pip Williams, and debut authors Mawunyo Gbogbo, Andrew Quilty, and Amy Thunig, have been announced as the first of what will be 100 artists in the 10th Newcastle Writers Festival.

Newcastle Herald

Australian bestseller The Dictionary of Lost Words set to become a television series

The Dictionary of Lost Words will be adapted for TV, with two Australian production houses acquiring screen rights for the novel.

The New Daily

Julia Gillard: one-woman play starring Play School’s Justine Clarke to debut in 2023

Sydney Theatre Company’s announcement of the work, written by Joanna Murray-Smith, aligns with 10-year anniversary of former PM’s misogyny speech

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