Judith Brett’s From Secret Ballot to Democracy Sausage is a fantastic book that has received critically acclaim from political commentators such as Waleed Aly, Antony Green and Annabel Crabb. Australia is one of the few places in the world where it is compulsory to vote and the only English speaking one. This book explains how this happened as well as how it has affected our politics. Judith is the prize-winning biographer of and a professor of politics at La Trobe.

At Fairfield Book's Opening Pages, she'll join Jenny Ackland, Melbourne teacher and author of Little Gods, which was shortlisted for this year’s Stella. Set in the Mallee, Olive Locklock has just turned twelve. She becomes obsessed with her dead baby sister, convinced that she was murdered. Her quest to discover what has happened will have seismic repercussions for her family and community where the truth might not set you free at all.