Dictionary of Lost Words & Bookbinder of Jericho Pip Williams 2 Books Set - Fiction - Paperback

Titles in This Set. 1. The Dictionary of Lost Words. 2. The Bookbinder of Jericho. Details. Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9780704148314. Publisher: Vintage Publishing (Penguin Random House UK). Age Range: Adult. Overview. This Pip Williams 2 Books Collection Set brings together two richly researched, character-led historical novels set in early twentieth-century Oxford during the First World War. The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho both explore women's overlooked contributions to language and the home front, told with warmth and emotional depth. A wonderful paperback pairing for readers who love immersive women's historical fiction and books celebrating quiet acts of courage.. About the Books. The Dictionary of Lost Words follows Esme, a motherless girl raised beneath the sorting table where her father and his colleagues compile the first Oxford English Dictionary. When a slip bearing a forgotten word falls unclaimed to the floor, Esme begins secretly gathering the words that the male editors dismiss — many of them women's words, servants' words, spoken but never written down. As the suffrage movement gathers pace and the Great War looms, her private collection becomes an act of quiet rebellion and a meditation on whose history gets remembered.. The Bookbinder of Jericho is set in the Oxford University Press bindery in the same turbulent years. Peggy is a gifted bookbinder who longs for an education she has been told is not for girls like her. When the men of the bindery leave for the Western Front, Peggy and the other women who stitch the pages of books they will never be permitted to read must shoulder new responsibilities — and Peggy glimpses a chance to finally shape a future of her own. Together, the two novels form a compelling companion pairing following different women whose determination quietly reshapes the world around them.. Two complete bestselling paperback novels by Pip Williams, presented as a matching collecti