Join award-winning author Judith Brett at the Blackheath History Forum.

Judith’s book The Enigmatic Mr Deakin is the winner of the 2018 National Biography Award.  In the first biography of Deakin in more than half a century, Judith deftly weaves together his public, private and family lives. She brings out from behind the image of a worthy, bearded father of federation the principled and passionate, gifted and eccentric figure whose legacy continues to shape the contours of the nation’s politics.