Pip is the author of social research, essays, memoir and the odd poem, but she is best known for her companion novels, The Dictionary of Lost Words and The Bookbinder of Jericho.

Since its publication in 2020, The Dictionary of Lost Words has won a number of major Australian book awards, was longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the prestigious Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in the UK. In 2022 it was chosen for the Reese Witherspoon Book Club, and it became a New York Times best seller. As well as being adapted for stage, The Dictionary of Lost Words is being turned into a book concerto and has been optioned for a limited series.

Pip’s second novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho was published in 2023 and was an instant best seller. In 2024 it won the Australian Book Industry Awards general fiction book of the year and was Dymocks’ number one book in its top 101.

Pip’s books have been published around the world and translated into more than 30 languages..