In 1901, the word 'bondmaid' was discovered missing from The Oxford English Dictionary. Pip Williams’ award-winning story, The Dictionary of Lost Words, is about the girl who stole it. Join Pip Williams for this thought-provoking conversation with writer, teacher and critic Tegan Bennett Daylight (The Details, Six Bedrooms, Safety, What Falls Away) about the power of language and its ability to shape the world.

Pip Williams is the author of the much-loved memoir One Italian Summer and the national number one bestseller, The Dictionary of Lost Words. Its companion novel The Bookbinder of Jericho will be published in November 2022.

Tegan Bennett Daylight is a writer, teacher and critic. Her collection of short stories, Six Bedrooms, was shortlisted for the ALS Gold Medal, the Steele Rudd Award and the Stella Prize. Her latest book is The Details.

If tickets below are sold out, a number of tickets will also be sold at the door on the day. Due to wet weather, this event has now moved to the Old Library at Civic Place, Katoomba. (100 metres down the hill from The Carrington, opposite Specsavers.)